Magnetic resonance of the heart in a muscular dystrophy patient with an MR conditional ICD: assessment of safety, diagnostic value and technical limitations.

ABSTRACT: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) studies in patients with pacemakers or implantable cardioverter/defibrillators (ICD) are increasingly required in daily clinical practice. Therefore, in the last years the manufacturers developed not only MR-conditional pacemakers, but also MR-conditional ICDs. However, the clinical experience regarding the feasibility and limitations of MR studies of the heart in patients with ICDs is still limited. In particular, there are hardly any CMR studies in the same patients performed prior to and post ICD implantation allowing a one-to-one comparison of the obtained CMR images. This is the first presentation of a CMR study in a patient with the world's first and so far only MR-conditional ICD. In our case, a major problem related to the presence of the MR

SUBMITTER: Florian A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3688460 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature