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  2. Medtronic Wins FDA Approval for MRI-Accessible Pacemaker - AOL

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    Medical device maker Medtronic announced in a press release yesterday that it has won FDA regulatory approval for its Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacemaker. The Advisa is Medtronic's second MR ...

  3. Safety of magnetic resonance imaging - Wikipedia

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    All patients are reviewed for contraindications prior to MRI scanning. Medical devices and implants are categorized as MR Safe, MR Conditional or MR Unsafe: [6] MR-Safe – The device or implant is completely non-magnetic, non-electrically conductive, and non-RF reactive, eliminating all of the primary potential threats during an MRI procedure.

  4. Artificial cardiac pacemaker - Wikipedia

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    As of 2014 the five most commonly used cardiac pacing device manufacturers (covering more than 99% of the US market) made FDA-approved MR-conditional pacemakers. [34] The use of MRI may be ruled out by the patient having an older, non-MRI Conditional pacemaker, or by having old pacing wires inside the heart, no longer connected to a pacemaker.

  5. Medtronic - Wikipedia

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    Medtronic operational headquarters in Fridley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Medtronic was founded in 1949 in Minneapolis by Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law, Palmer Hermundslie, as a medical equipment repair shop. [8] Bakken invented several medical technology devices that continue to be used around the world today. [citation needed]

  6. Medtronic disables pacemaker programmer updates over ... - AOL

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    Medical device maker Medtronic Plc has disabled internet updates for some 34,000 CareLink programming devices that healthcare providers around the world use to access implanted pacemakers, saying ...

  7. Medtronic (MDT) Releases Positive Study Results on Pacemaker

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  8. List of cardiologists - Wikipedia

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    Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3] Raymond Perry Ahlquist: 1914: 1983: United States [4] John Ainsworth: 1957 – British: Treating complex heart conditions [5] Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff: 1866: 1942: Germany [6] John Brereton Barlow: 1924: 2008: South Africa: First described mitral valve prolapse ...

  9. Raymond Damadian - Wikipedia

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    Damadian later collaborated with Wilson Greatbatch, one early developer of the implantable pacemaker, to develop an MRI-compatible pacemaker. He invented a stand-up MRI system and has 15 MRI scanning centers across the United States. There are a number of independent MRI centers that use this technology both in the U.S. and around the world.