Vol 71, No 6 (2013)
Case studies
Published online: 2013-06-02

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Magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

Marcin Fijałkowski, Maksymilian Mielczarek, Edyta Szurowska, Dariusz Zacharek, Maciej Kempa, Karolina Dorniak, Michał Bohdan, Agnieszka Sabisz, Mirosława Dubaniewicz, Andrzej Rynkiewicz
Kardiol Pol 2013;71(6):618-620.

Abstract

The number of patients with cardiac pacemakers (PM), implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronisationtherapy PM systems is increasing. The number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations is also growingand amounts to about 60 million tests per year worldwide. The presence of an ICD is still considered to be an absolute contraindicationto MRI by most experts. We present a patient with an implanted ICD who successfully underwent brain MRIwith use of special precautions.

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