Sunday, November 29 | 2:50 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. | S5-SSCA02-2 | Room E353C
It's safe to use MRI with patients who have cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), according to a talk to be delivered Sunday afternoon.
Presenter Pedram Keshavarz, MD, of Trinity Health in Livonia, MI, and colleagues conducted a study that included 7,324 MRI examinations performed in 4,152 patients with CIEDs. All participants underwent prescreening with chest x-ray; devices were continuously monitored during 1.5-Tesla MR imaging and included MRI-conditional pacemakers and MR-conditional cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers.
The group reported 10 adverse events during and immediately after MRI (0.24%); of these, 60% were atrial or supraventricular arrhythmias and 40% ventricular tachycardia. Of the total exams, 99.7% were completed without clinically significant complications or permanent device failures, it noted, and concluded that "MRI should not be withheld from patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices when clinically indicated."
Sit in on this Sunday talk.
