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 ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes state-of-the-art medical technologies clash. More than 2 million Americans depend on pacemakers or defibrillators to keep their hearts beating right. But those lifesaving ...

The Food and Drug Administration gave Abbott approval to label its Assurity MRI pacemaker and the Tendril MRI pacing lead as MRI-compatible. Patients implanted with the devices will be able to undergo ...

Patients with pacemakers now may have a chance to undergo certain types of MRI scans, according to a Worcester Telegram & Gazette report. UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., and Milford ...

We found MRI examinations to be safe in the setting of legacy cardiac pacemakers or ICDs The majority of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) currently in use are termed ...

DALLAS -- For years, older model, so-called legacy pacemakers were not compatible with MRIs because the metal in the pacemakers caused the magnetic resonance imaging devices to fail, lead tips to ...

Community Healthcare System electrophysiologists are the first in Northwest Indiana to implant a new tiny pacemaker that requires no incision or skin pocket and has no lead. Need an MRI? No problem.

One of the most vexing dilemmas for patients with pacemakers is that an MRI scan may prevent the device from pacing the heart. But on Monday, Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. announced that it has ...

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. PAUL, Minn., St. Jude Medical, Inc., a global medical device company, today announced that it has received European CE Mark approval for its Accent MRI(TM) pacemaker and Tendril MRI(TM) lead. The ...

For years, older model, so-called legacy pacemakers were not compatible with MRIs because the metal in the pacemakers caused the magnetic resonance imaging devices to fail, lead tips to overheat and ...

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 ...