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Assessing the safety of magnetic resonance imaging in cardiac device carriers

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  1. UOC Pronto Soccorso e Medicina d’Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Elisa Gesu

  2. Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Giorgio Colombo

  3. School of Medicine, Keele University, Manchester, UK

    Jane Victoria Moffat

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Gesu, E., Colombo, G., Moffat, J.V. et al. Assessing the safety of magnetic resonance imaging in cardiac device carriers. Intern Emerg Med 13, 933–935 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-018-1876-0

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