Safety of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Cardiac Devices
- 28 December 2017
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 377 (26), 2555-2564
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1604267
Abstract
Patients who have pacemakers or defibrillators are often denied the opportunity to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of safety concerns, unless the devices meet certain criteria specified by the Food and Drug Administration (termed “MRI-conditional” devices).Keywords
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