From the 1Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, 2Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, Connecticut, 3Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western …

Ventricular arrhythmias are an important cause of morbidity and mortality and come in a
variety of forms, from single premature ventricular complexes to sustained ventricular …

The content of these European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines has been published
for personal and educational use only. No commercial use is authorized. No part of the ESC …

Document Reviewers: Luis Aguinaga, MD; Timothy SE Albert, MD, FACC; Peter F. Aziz, MD,
FHRS; Alec Block, MD; Peter Brady, MB, ChB, MD; Mina Chung, MD, FACC; Michael …

Background The presence of a cardiovascular implantable electronic device has long been
a contraindication for the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We …

Background Patients who have pacemakers or defibrillators are often denied the opportunity
to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of safety concerns, unless the …

Advances in cardiac surgery toward the mid-20th century created a need for an artificial
means of stimulating the heart muscle. Initially developed as large external devices …

Importance Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the modality of choice for many conditions.
Conditional devices and novel protocols for imaging patients with legacy cardiac …

According to a recent worldwide survey, current rates of de novo pacemaker and
implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation are higher than those of previous …

Interference is defined as disturbance generated by an external source that potentially
affects the functioning of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs)—ie cardiac …