Skip Navigation


Europace Advance Access originally published online on February 3, 2006
Europace 2006 8(4):255-266; doi:10.1093/europace/euj054
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
8/4/255    most recent
euj054v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (3)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Enseleit, F.
Right arrow Articles by Duru, F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Enseleit, F.
Right arrow Articles by Duru, F.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The European Society of Cardiology 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Long-term continuous external electrocardiographic recording: a review

Frank Enseleit and Firat Duru*

Clinic of Cardiology, Cardiovascular CenterUniversity Hospital ZurichRämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zurich Switzerland

Ambulatory electrocardiographic (AECG) monitoring is an essential tool in the diagnostic evaluation of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. Recent advances in solid-state technology have improved the quality of the ECG signals and new dedicated algorithms have expanded the clinical application of software-based AECG analysis systems. These advances, in addition to the availability of inexpensive large storage capacities, and very long-term continuous high-quality AECG monitoring, have opened new potential uses for AECG. New digital recorders have the capability of multichannel simultaneous recordings (from 3 to 12 leads) and for telemetred signal transduction. These possibilities will expand the traditional uses of AECG for arrhythmia detection, as arrhythmia monitoring to assess drug and device efficacies has been further defined by new studies. The analysis of transient ST-segment deviation still remains controversial, but considerably more data are now available, especially about the prognostic value of detecting asymptomatic ischaemia. Heart rate variability analysis has shown promise for predicting mortality rates in cardiac patients at high risk. We review recent advances in this field of non-invasive cardiac testing.

Key Words: Ambulatory electrocardiogram, Holter monitoring, Heart rate variability, Arrhythmia

* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 44 255 35 65; fax: +41 44 255 44 01. E-mail address: firat.duru{at}usz.ch


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.