St. Jude Medical Inc. STJ recently announced the receipt of CE Mark approval for magnetic resonance (MR) conditional labeling for 1.5 T scans for its Nanostim leadless pacemaker. The approval will ...

All new implants should be a fully MRI-compatible system. All new implants should at least be with MRI-compatible leads. No overwhelming need to implant an MRI-compatible device. Based on our daily ...

The Entovis system presents advantages over existing pacemakers approved as MR conditional. Patients with approved Entovis pacemakers and leads need only alert radiology staff of their device and the ...

Pacemakers are life saving, but they can also prevent you from getting a crucial MRI scan when you need it. But now manufacturers are making models that are more MRI friendly. For Joyce Schwartz an ...

Medtronic, Inc. announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its Revo MRI SureScan pacing system, the first and only pacemaker in the US specifically designed for use in an ...

The Assurity MRI (pictured above) and the Endurity MRI pacemakers make up St. Jude Medical's low-voltage MRI offering. A U.S. launch, anticipated in the first half of 2016, should help St. Jude ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes state-of-the-art medical technologies clash. More than 2 million Americans depend on pacemakers or defibrillators to keep their hearts beating right. But those lifesaving ...

Functions like sensing and pacing in implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) tend to resist interference from the energy fields generated by MRI, as long as device programming is properly ...