Gerhard Hindricks, Dominic A Theuns, David Bar-Lev, Ignasi Anguera, Félix Alejandro Ayala Paredes, Martin Arnold, J Christoph Geller, Béla Merkely, Katia Marjolaine Dyrda, Christian Perings, Giampiero Maglia, Sylvain Ploux, Jürgen Meyhöfer, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Pasi Karjalainen, Yanchun Liang, Igor Diemberger, Jerzy Krzysztof Wranicz, Craig Barr, Fabio Quartieri, Tobias Timmel, Andreas Bollmann
AIMS: To allow timely initiation of anticoagulation therapy for the prevention of stroke, the European guidelines on atrial fibrillation (AF) recommend remote monitoring (RM) of device-detected atrial high-rate episodes (AHREs) and progression of arrhythmia duration along pre-specified strata (6 min…<1 h, 1 h…<24 h, ≥ 24 h). We used the MATRIX registry data to assess the capability of a single-lead implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) with atrial sensing dipole (DX ICD system) to follow this recommendation in patients with standard indication for single-chamber ICD...
April 11, 2023: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology