Keywords: Cardiovascular: Cardiac, Physics & Engineering: Implants
This talk will overview the most common indications for pacemaker implantation and the usefulness of CMR pre-implantation. Multiparametric CMR is the reference standard for non-invasive myocardial tissue characterization and can detect underlying causes of cardiomyopathies/ structural heart disease. Therefore, CMR improves guiding clinicians in decision-making for cardiac pacemaker implantation. However, imaging may be challenging because many patients have arrhythmias resulting in imaging artifacts. Thus, common technical issues and how to fix them to reduce arrhythmia artifacts will be discussed. This talk aims to familiarize the audience with why those examinations are challenging and how to resolve issues.