Insertable Cardiac Monitoring Results in Higher Rates of Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis and Oral Anticoagulation Prescription after Ischaemic Stroke.
Giuseppe BorianiAngelo AuricchioGiovanni Luca BottoJennifer M JosephGregory J RobertsAndrea GrammaticoYelena NabutovskyJonathan P PicciniPublished in: Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology (2023)
Patients with an ischaemic stroke monitored with an ICM were almost 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with AF and to be prescribed OAC compared to patients who received ECM only.