Implantable heart monitor chips are much more effective at detecting irregular heart rhythms than the external devices now more commonly prescribed following a stroke, a new study finds.
monitor chips are much more effective at detecting irregular heart rhythms than the external devices now more commonly prescribed following a stroke.One trial showed that the implanted monitor picked up three times more atrial fibrillation than an external device patients have to carry around, and in the other trial it detected six times more atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation increases a person's stroke risk by four to five times, and at least one in seven strokes are caused by the irregular heart rhythm, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The problem is that atrial fibrillation is a lot like that noise your car makes — you can't count on the noise to occur when the car's being looked over by a mechanic.Buck explained that"the rhythm disturbance can be present for a couple of minutes in a month and then not show up for several months later, and then only be there for a few hours and then go away again."
But a month of monitoring usually isn't enough, and patients find the external monitor to be a real pain in the neck, Buck said.
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