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 ...

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 ...

Now doctors think they have solved the problem with a new pacemaker called the MRI SureScan. Liz Hogan was on her way to work when her life changed. "She forgot where she was going. The only thing she ...

Interventional cardiologists at Houston Northwest Medical Center are now implanting the first heart pacemaker that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be used safely during ...

Now, a new type of MRI-safe cardiac pacemaker is on the market, and 2 local men are among the first to get it. They received the new SureScan pacing system during nearly simultaneous procedures at ...

February 9, 2011 (Silver Spring, Maryland) — The FDA approved the first pacemaker specifically designed to be safe with magnetic resonance imaging scans [1]. Following the unanimous advice of its ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - A new pacemaker from U.S.medical devices group Medtronic Inc is safe to use in MRI scanners, according to initial safety and efficacy data unveiled on Sunday. The SureScan device is ...