Single-chamber Devices Receive CE Mark for Full Body MRI Scans Without Positioning Restrictions MINNEAPOLIS - Medtronic, Inc., today announced CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark and commercial launch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Revo MRI SureScan pacing system is MR Conditional designed to allow patients to undergo MRI under the specified conditions for use. A complete system, consisting of a Medtronic Revo MRI SureScan ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 19 (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc's experimental MRI-safe pacemaker should be approved despite limited clinical data as long as further study is done, U.S. health advisers ...

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 ...

One of the most vexing dilemmas for patients with pacemakers is that an MRI scan may prevent the device from pacing the heart. But on Monday, Fridley-based Medtronic Inc. announced that it has ...