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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 9, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(16):1683-1684; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi360
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Safe, sensible, sagacious: responsible scanning of pacemaker patients

J. Rod Gimbel

Department of Cardiology
Parkwest Hospital
Knoxville
TN 37923, USA
Tel: +1 865 691 4850
Fax: +1 865 525 9660
E-mail address: gimbeljr@ix.netcom.com

Bruce L. Wilkoff

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland
OH, USA

Emanuel Kanal

Department of Radiology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh
PA, USA

Marc A. Rozner

Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
M D Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas
Houston
TX, USA

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We were quite concerned reading the recent editorial by Dr Edward T. Martin.1 Some statements are erroneous and some recommendations made are potentially dangerous if followed by the readers of the European Heart Journal.

As earlier,2 Martin overstates the problem of denying device patients MRI. The cited study by Sakakibara and Mitsui3 does not report that ‘17% of patients with pacemakers were denied MRI . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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