MRI in persons with coronary stents

Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 07 May, 2009

Coronary stents can get heated up during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Hence MRI is better avoided within the first month after bare metal stent and three months of drug eluting stent implantation. This is the usual time period for endothelisation of these stents.

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