Generally, pacemakers improve quality of life for individuals who have a condition causing bradycardia, or a slowed heart rate. However, because there is an electrical device implanted near your heart ...

LA JOLLA, CA – February 22, 2017 – The MagnaSafe Registry, a new multicenter study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has demonstrated that appropriately screened and ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - MRI examinations can be performed safely in patients with non-MR compatible cardiac devices, including those who are pacemaker-dependent or have abandoned leads, according to a study ...

CHICAGO, IL — Patients with a conventional pacemaker or implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) who need a definitive diagnostic nonthoracic MRI scan—of their brain, lower spine, hip, or knee, for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators that were not MRI-conditional ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex and sophisticated, new systems present new challenges and more complex modes of failure. The risk of lead failure probably is higher than the risk of ...

MRIs show incredible detail and help doctors diagnose medical issues that were invisible years ago, but people with pacemakers couldn’t undergo MRIs until now. A medical breakthrough makes MRIs safe ...

Heart patients face a big problem if they need an MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, to deal with serious health problems like cancer: Standard pacemakers can't withstand an MRI scan. Heart patients ...

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) to launch the Accent MRI Pacemaker and the Tendril MRI ...

Analysts believe that device makers who are able to launch implantable products whose functioning isn’t hampered by magnetic resonance imaging will win as chronically ill patients are often directed ...

St. Jude Medical picked up a CE mark allowing patients implanted with its cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker to undergo magnetic resonance imaging. The approval opens up more diagnostic ...

MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sorin Group (MIL:SRN), (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today the launch of KORA 250, its ...