Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marcus, Gregory M., MD, MAS
• Dewland, Thomas A., MD

Titel

Premature Atrial Contractions

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2015-07, Vol.66 (3), p.242-244

Ort / Verlag

New York: Elsevier Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the investigators analyzed the variability in atrial ectopy between the first and second 24-h periods of Holter monitoring to argue that this monitoring technique has excellent day-to-day reproducibility in detecting a high ectopic atrial burden. [...]a phenomenon would be important to recognize because treatment of PACs in this situation would not be expected to reduce either AF or stroke outcomes. Because atrial ectopy is strongly correlated with other stroke and AF risk factors, a clinical trial that randomizes patients with frequent ectopy to various PAC reduction treatments offers the best hope of understanding these potentially complex relationships.