Atar İlyas, Bal Uğur, Ertan Çağatay, Özin Bülent, Müderrisoğlu Haldun
Department of Cardiology, Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2016 Jan;44(1):79-81. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2015.68624.
Presence of a cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a relative contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Biventricular ICDs are often used in the treatment of advanced heart failure; however, reports on experience with biventricular ICDs are lacking in the literature. In this case report, we describe a pacemaker-dependent patient with a biventricular ICD on whom an MRI of the lumbar spine was performed without having realized the presence of the ICD.
