Using implantable loop recorders for primary monitoring of patients with unexplained syncope and preserved LV function is more cost effective and diagnostically efficient than conventional testing.

Linker works at a department that specialises in implanting loop recorders and says they carry out about two or three procedures a week. According to Medtrionic, around 6,500 are expected to be ...

Three weeks ago, Gonzalez implanted the loop recorder device -- which is approximately one-third the size of a AAA battery, making it more than 80 percent smaller than other monitors -- just ...

Researchers tested two continuous ECG monitoring approaches post-TAVR -- one using skin patches over 14 days, the other implantable loop recorders (ILRs) over 1 year -- in separate studies ...

The implantable loop recorder is a small device implanted beneath the skin above her heart. The procedure was a minimally invasive surgery that took about 15 minutes to install.