How revealing are insertable loop recorders in pediatrics?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-343

  Frangini, Patricia A ^a   Cecchin, Frank ^a   Jordao, Ligia ^a   Martuscello, Maria ^a   Alexander, Mark E ^a   Triedman, John K ^a   Walsh, Edward P ^a   Berul, Charles I ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Insertable loop recorder; Pediatrics; Syncope

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASYSTOLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INFECTION; INSERTABLE LOOP RECORDER; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; QT PROLONGATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM; SYNCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIATRICS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNCOPE;

EID: 40149084996     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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