Peter Mitro
Long-term ECG monitoring is currently considered as a gold standard in diagnostics of arrhythmogenic syncope. An implantable
loop recorder is the most suitable type of monitoring in syncope, allowing several years of high quality ECG
signal monitoring with acceptable comfort for the patient. The implantable loop recorder is able to detect arrhythmias
in about one third of patients with syncope in which the electrophysiological examination did not find cardiac arrhythmias.
Although the implantable loop recorder is still considered as a last diagnostic method in the case of failure of other
methods, the current trend is an early implantation of the recorder which is able to replace the conventional diagnostic
methods in selected patients.