Implantable vs Prolonged External Electrocardiographic Monitoring for Atrial Fibrillation Detection in Ischemic Stroke —Reply

In Reply Dr Ito notes that adherence to monitoring may affect the diagnostic yield for wearable electrocardiographic monitors and suggests that poor adherence to external monitoring is responsible for the lower incidence of atrial fibrillation we found among patients with a recent ischemic stroke randomized to an external loop recorder vs an implantable loop recorder. However, our study data do not support that notion.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research