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Safety of magnetic resonance imaging of patients with a new Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacing system: clinical study design

BACKGROUND: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of patients with implanted cardiac devices is currently considered hazardous due to potential for electromagnetic interference to the patient and pacemaker system. With approximately 60 million MRI scans performed worldwide per year, an estimated majority...

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Autores principales: Sutton, Richard, Kanal, Emanuel, Wilkoff, Bruce L, Bello, David, Luechinger, Roger, Jenniskens, Inge, Hull, Michael, Sommer, Torsten
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2629460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-9-68