Vuorinen, Aino-Maija http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-3269
Paakkanen, Riitta
Karvonen, Jarkko
Sinisalo, Juha
Holmström, Miia
Kivistö, Sari
Peltonen, Juha I.
Kaasalainen, Touko
Article History
Received: 1 July 2021
Revised: 12 November 2021
Accepted: 17 November 2021
First Online: 6 January 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Touko Kaasalainen.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Abbott (Jarkko Karvonen), Medtronic (Jarkko Karvonen).
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because research based purely on documentation or registered materials does not need to be reviewed by the regional ethics committees and informed written consent is not required for research based on purely documentation.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.Research based purely on documentation or registered materials does not need to be reviewed by the regional ethics committees.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in Vuorinen AM, Pakarinen S, Jaakkola I, Holmstrom M, Kivisto S, Kaasalainen T (2019) Clinical experience of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with cardiac pacing devices: unrestricted patient population. Acta Radiol 60:1414–1421. Seven MRIs in seven patients with functioning or abandoned epicardial leads were included in this previous publication and are also included in this study. However, our previous article concentrated on the general safety of MRI in patients with CIED and on the MRI safety protocol. Patients with functioning epicardial pacing leads remained without specific note. This publication concentrates specifically in the subgroup of patients with epicardial pacing leads and adds valuable information in this setting.
: • retrospective• observational• performed at one institution