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Ambulatory electrocardiography (AECG) refers to diagnostic techniques used to record cardiac rhythms in an outpatient setting. AECG methods provide a recording of the cardiac rhythm from one or more leads for variable durations, up to several years (Zimetbaum and Josephson, Ann Intern Med, 130, 848–856, 1999, Crawford et al., Circulation, 100, 886–893, 1999, Miller and Zipes, Braunwald’s heart disease. A textbook of cardiovascular medicine, Elsevier Saunders, 2005). AECG techniques permit the evaluation of dynamic cardiac electrical activity that is frequently intermittent and of short duration. In addition, AECG allows for the real time recording of cardiac rhythms to enable a direct correlation between a cardiac rhythm and patient symptoms. Over the last several years, a variety of new technologies have emerged that allow use of multiple types of noninvasive and invasive recorders for AECG.
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Gionfriddo, W.J., Laidlaw, D.W., Mark Estes, N.A. (2022). Ambulatory Electrocardiography. In: Hendel, R.C., Kimmelstiel, C. (eds) Cardiology Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95259-4_20
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