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Computerized analysis of ambulatory monitoring in the quantification of sinoatrial disease

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A Computer program was written to allow quantitative beat-by-beat analysis of 24-h tapes acquired during standard ambulatory monitoring. Compared with a control group, subjects with sinoatrial disease were found to have significantly more tachy—brady events, more heart rate variability, more beat-to-beat variability and had fewer beats within a normal heart rate range. This technique, complementary to conventional analysis of 24—h tapes, may be useful in detecting more frequent but less severe abnormalities of heart rhythm in sinoatrial disease, strengthening the diagnostic power of ambulatory monitoring and allowing quantification of a further range of heart rhythm abnormalities.

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  1. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

    O. J. M Ormerod, R. H. Stables, J. A. Bond, J. A. Johnson & P. Sleight

  2. Department of Invasive Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, SW3 6NP, London, UK

    O. J. M Ormerod, R. H. Stables, J. A. Bond, J. A. Johnson & P. Sleight

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Ormerod, O.J.M., Stables, R.H., Bond, J.A. et al. Computerized analysis of ambulatory monitoring in the quantification of sinoatrial disease. Clinical Autonomic Research 4, 155–160 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01826180

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