Safe scanning, but frequent artifacts mimicking bradycardia and tachycardia during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in patients with an Implantable Loop Recorder (ILR)

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-408

  Gimbel, J Rod ^a,d   Zarghami, Jamal ^b   Machado, Christian ^b   Wilkoff, Bruce L ^c  

^a Parkwest Hospital   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifact; Loop recorder; MRI; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; KNEE; KNEE PAIN; LEG PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDER; SHOULDER INJURY; SKULL; TACHYCARDIA; BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ARTIFACTS; BRADYCARDIA; BURNS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644809598     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2005.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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