A prospective evaluation of a protocol for magnetic resonance imaging of patients with implanted cardiac devices

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 415-424

  Nazarian, Saman ^a   Hansford, Rozann ^b   Roguin, Ariel ^c   Goldsher, Dorith ^c   Zviman, Menekhem M ^b   Lardo, Albert C ^b   Caffo, Brian S ^d   Frick, Kevin D ^d   Kraut, Michael A ^a   Kamel, Ihab R ^e   Calkins, Hugh ^b   Berger, Ronald D ^b   Bluemke, David A ^f   Halperin, Henry R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053531595     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-7-201110040-00004     Document Type: Article

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