Identifying high risk patients post myocardial infarction with reduced left ventricular function using loop recorders INSPIRE-ELR clinical study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) continues to be a devastating complication amongst survivors of myocardial infarction (MI). Mortality is high in the initial months after MI. The aims of the INSPIRE-ELR study were to assess the proportion of patients with significant arrhythmias early after MI and the association with mortality during 12 months of follow-up.

Methods

The study included 249 patients within 14 days after MI with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤35% at discharge in 11 hospitals in India. Patients received a wearable external loop recorder (ELR) 5 ± 3 days after MI to monitor arrhythmias for 7 days.

Results

Patients were predominantly male (86%) with a mean age of 56 ± 12 years. In 82%, reperfusion had been done and all received standard of care c

SUBMITTER: Singh B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9243623 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature