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An MRI with any metal effected by strong magnets in your body can be deadly. The least of your worries would be tearing the implant out through your skin. My
by fredsanford 8y ago
An MRI with any metal effected by strong magnets in your body can be deadly. The least of your worries would be tearing the implant out through your skin. My lung doctor saved me from that when I was brought in unconscious in an emergency. My wife tells me he went down the hall at a full run... I have an ICD implanted.
- Doxin 8y agoI always assumed they run MRI patients through a metal detector first, seems like a sensible precaution to me.
- jimrandomh 8y agoThey do, at least the one time I was in one (which was fMRI for a research study.)
- rmcpherson 8y agoThere are MRI-safe ICDs now. So they can be designed to avoid heating and mechanical displacement in MRIs. For ones not designed for this, such as yours apparently, it can be deadly though.
- caycep 8y agoThere's specs for current Medtronic DBS systems (machine configured below certain RF power, 1.5 tesla magnet, specific head coils), as long as you stay within them, it's ok. Boston Sci/St Jude ones are "probably" compatible" but has not had FDA approval for MRIs yet.