Risks to pacemaker patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging examinations

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 918-920

  Irnich, Werner ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIODE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; ADULT; AGED; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 77954965264     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq144     Document Type: Editorial

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