PRAGUE, Czech Republic — A new wireless patch device that enables prolonged monitoring for atrial fibrillation (AF) after cryptogenic stroke identified more patients with AF than does standard 24-hour ...

Cardiologs, a company that uses ECG data to detect potential cardiac arrhythmias, is developing a new way to predict atrial fibrillation. On Tuesday, the European Heart Journal – Digital Health ...

For more than half a century, physicians have relied on a portable device called the Holter monitor to record patients' heart activity as they go about their everyday activities. However, according to ...

LA JOLLA, CA — The novel Zio patch (iRhythm Technologies, San Francisco, CA), worn for 14 days, outperformed a conventional Holter monitor worn for 24 hours, in a study of patients who underwent ...

Medtronic ($MDT) launched the wireless, adhesive heart monitor that it acquired when it bought startup Corventis in June reportedly for more than $150 million. The ...

Researchers have discovered that a small adhesive wireless device worn on the chest for up to two weeks does a better job detecting abnormal and potentially dangerous heart rhythms than the Holter ...

For CRYSTAL AF (Cryptogenic Stroke and Underlying AF), investigators led by Tommaso Sanna, MD, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Rome, Italy), examined the efficacy of 6 months of ...

Doctors wanting to determine a patient’s atrial fibrillation burden have a myriad of technologies at their disposal: 24-hour Holter monitors, 30-day event monitors that are triggered by an abnormal ...