Results
A total of 96 patients were analyzed who underwent cardiac loop recorder
implantation during the period between 2014 and 2019 for an indication
of cryptogenic stroke. Most of the patients were female 60.4%, mean age
was 66.8±12.9 years and the group where atrial fibrillation was detected
was slightly older (70.7±12.8 vs 65.2±12.7 years) although the
difference was not statistically significant. Atrial fibrillation was
detected in 28 of 96 patients (29%). Forty-eight percent of the events
in the AF group were detected within the first 36 days of loop recorder
implantation (Figure 1). All detected AF episodes were exquisitely
paroxysmal in nature and ranged in duration between 0.05-103 minutes
(mean 8.4±22.1 minutes). The mean time from implantation of the loop
recorder to analysis was 20 ± 15.8 months. Baseline characteristics are
illustrated in Table (1).