New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

a conventional pacing system can be implanted. In the future, studies may address the MRI compatibility of old conventional leads, possibly permitting use of an MRI-conditional pulse generator ...

Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was front page news even before the child’s death was known. Newspaper coverage, including from the Pioneer ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

Imricor’s work over past 18 years developing the world’s only MRI-compatible devices for cardiac ablation procedures is ...

The first-ever pacemaker to include Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP®), the EnRhythm™ Pacing System promotes intrinsic conduction and is clinically proven to significantly reduce unnecessary ...

Caution for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): If you need a MRI scan in the hospital, always mention you have a pacemaker because not all pacemakers are MRI-compatible, and compatible ones need to be ...

The U.S. FDA urged doctors and patients to use CT imaging if possible, when the MRI compatibility of any electronic implanted devices is unknown because problems with CT imaging are "extremely low" in ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was front page news even before the child’s death was known. “Thursday’s power failure was undoubtedly ...