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Safe Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging on a Patient with an ICD
Author(s) -
WOLLMANN CHRISTIAN,
GRUDE MATTHIAS,
TOMBACH BERND,
KUGEL HARALD,
HEINDEL WALTER,
BREITHARDT GÜNTER,
BÖCKER DIRK,
VAHLHAUS CHRISTIAN
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09535.x
Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , medical physics , radiology , nuclear magnetic resonance , physics
This is a report on a patient with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) who intentionally underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a malignant brain tumor. To avoid inadequate detection of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), the ICD was inactivated by programming the VT‐detection and VT/VF‐therapy status off. The patient came through the protocol safely and without any difficulty or discomfort. There was no arrhythmic event. MRI affected neither programmed data nor the function of the ICD system.