Holter monitoring--a necessity for the evaluation of palpitations.
Eighty-five patients complaining of palpitations were evaluated by means of 24-hour dynamic electrocardiography. A sensitivity of 0,69 and a specificity of 0,90 were calculated. This illustrates the value of Holter monitoring in the assessment of patients complaining of palpitations.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D013614:Tachycardia, Paroxysmal / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013997:Time Factors