When Leda Vincent was diagnosed with breast cancer in January, doctors told her she needed to get an MRI. “That was the first thing they wanted me to do,” said Vincent of West Simsbury. But she has a ...

Abbott announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the MRI-compatible Assurity MRI pacemaker, as well as the Tendril MRI pacing lead. Abbott announced that the Food and Drug ...

The FDA approved MRI-conditional labeling for Abbott’s tiny wireless pacemaker, making it the smallest and longest-lasting MRI-compatible device of its kind. The new labeling also applies to a pacing ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- A 79-year-old Grand Rapids man today became the first person in Michigan to receive an MRI-compatible pacemaker -- a device that will not prevent him from undergoing a magnetic ...

St. Jude Medical picked up a CE mark allowing patients implanted with its cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemaker to undergo magnetic resonance imaging. The approval opens up more diagnostic ...

Patients with pacemakers now may have a chance to undergo certain types of MRI scans, according to a Worcester Telegram & Gazette report. UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., and Milford ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads, ...

The low heart rate, water retention and fatigue have all but disappeared for Bob Fouts since doctors implanted a pacemaker in the 79-year-old Korean War veteran. To top it off, Fouts will still be ...

In the choice of whether or not a device to be implanted should be MRI-compatible, some important medico-legal questions should be carefully considered: The patient's right to select his/her device in ...