European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 4, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(12):1243; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi298
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Heating of pacemaker leads during magnetic resonance imaging
Department of Cardiology
Hospital of the University of Münster
Germany
E-mail address: vahlhaus@uni-muenster.de
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Is MRI contraindicated in PM-patients? In their carefully performed study, Luechinger et al.1 convincingly show the possible heating of pacemaker leads by measuring heating at the lead tip together with the pacing parameters. Heating, comparable with in vitro data,
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