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Long-term ambulatory electrocardiographic (Holter) monitoring is widely used to evaluate patients presenting with palpitations, dizziness and syncope (1). Most of the reports in the literature show a high prevalence of arrhythmias in patients studied for these indications and conclude that the method is very useful (2–5). However, a strong link between symptoms and arrhythmias has only been shown in a small proportion of cases (6, 7) and the value of the method must be weighed against its costs (7).
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Burckhardt, D., Luetold, B.E., Jost, M.V., Hoffmann, A. (1982). Holter Monitoring in the Evaluation of Palpitations, Dizziness and Syncope. In: Roelandt, J., Hugenholtz, P.G. (eds) Long-Term Ambulatory Electrocardiography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7570-5_4
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