Metal wires should not be abandoned inside implantable cardioverter-defibrillators leads during heart transplantation!

Transpl Int. 2016 Oct;29(10):1136-8. doi: 10.1111/tri.12803. Epub 2016 Jul 7.

Authors

Laurent Bonnemains^{1

2

3}, Therese Barbier^{4

5}, Jacques Felblinger^{4

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ INSERM, IADI U947, Nancy, France. [email protected].
² Department of cardiothoracic surgery, CHU Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. [email protected].
³ University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. [email protected].
⁴ INSERM, IADI U947, Nancy, France.
⁵ Axon'Cable, Montmirail, France.
⁶ University of Lorraine, IADI, Nancy, France.
⁷ CHU Nancy, CICIT 1433, Nancy, France.

PMID: 27256985
DOI: 10.1111/tri.12803

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Defibrillators, Implantable*
Heart Transplantation / instrumentation*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Metals / chemistry*
Phantoms, Imaging
Temperature

Substances

Metals