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# FDA Approves Medtronic’s Cardiac Devices for MRI Scans
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-approves-medtronics-cardiac-devices-for-mri-scans/
- Published: 2016-10-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T21:39:28.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5137067

FDA has approved a Medtronic PMA for its cardiac rhythm and heart failure devices and leads to be scanned in both 3 and 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines. The approval covers the company’s SureScan MR-conditional pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators and leads for MRI scans on any part of the body. Each year, about 12-16% of patients with cardiac devices have a condition in which an MRI would normally be prescribed, but less than 1% receive a scan because their device or lead has restrictions, the company says.