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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7 Tesla
Published on: January 6, 2019
[Cardiac magnetic resonance with a MRI compatible pacemaker]
D Pesenti-Rossi1, C Alonso, N Baron
1Services de cardiologie, hôpital de Versailles, 177, rue de Versailles, 78150 Le-Chesnay, France; Clinique Ambroise-Paré, 27, boulevard Victor-Hugo, 92200 Neuilly/Seine, France.
Abstract:
Patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices are usually excluded from MRI examinations due to contraindication for MRI. The MRI-conditional pacemaker system may allow the benefits of MRI (system 1.5T) to be more accessible to pacemaker patients. A 62-year-old man was admitted with acute coronary syndrome and atrial fibrillation. A conventional angiography showed normal coronaries. A cardiac cardioversion revealed a significant sinus node dysfunction and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compatible dual chamber system was implanted. At 6-week follow-up, a cardiac MRI revealed a typical anterior myocardial infarction with diagnostic quality images despite pacemaker. This is one of the first reports of cardiovascular MRI in a patient with MRI-conditional pacing system.
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