ELIAS: Early Loop-Recorder in Suspected Arrhythmogenic Syncope
ELIAS: Early Loop-Recorder in Suspected Arrhythmogenic Syncope
This is a prospective, controlled, opened randomized study to evaluate the cost benefit of a
 primary implantation of a loop recorder versus the conventional diagnostic cascade for
 syncope most likely due to cardiac arrhythmia.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Two or more episodes of syncope (most likely due to cardiac arrhythmia) of uncertain
 etiology within the last 12 months or more than one syncope and two presyncopes

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Indication for the implantation of a pacemaker

 -  Indication for the implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

 -  Cardiac diseases which need intervention (KHK, aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, left
 ventricular [LV] outflow stenosis, decompensated heart failure)

 -  Contraindication for a diagnostic procedure requested by the study protocol

 -  Enrollment in another study

 -  Circumstances or comorbidities which do not allow enrollment