February 22, 2013
New Mayo Clinic protocol allows for MRI in select pacemaker patients
A new protocol at Mayo Clinic in Arizona allows select patients to have an MRI exam even though they have a pacemaker…”While it is likely that, in the next decade, MRI-conditional pacemakers will become standard, there is a large population of patients who in the interim may require MRI scanning,” says Win-Kuang Shen, M.D., a cardiac electrophysiologist and […]
Tags: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Dr. Win-Kuang Shen, HealthCanal, MRI, pacemaker