Magnetic Resonance Imaging Conditional Pacemakers: Rationale, Development and Future Directions

Pacemakers and other cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) have long been considered an absolute contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a crucial and growing imaging modality. In the last 20 years, protocols have been developed to allow MR scanning of CIED patients with a low...

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Main Authors: Edmond M. Cronin, MB, MRCPI, Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-09-01
Series:Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0972629216305435