Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 1-4 , January 2007

Potential interference of small neodymium magnets with cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

  • Thomas Wolber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Thomas Wolber, M.D., Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistr. 100, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
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  • Salome Ryf, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH, Zurich
    • Federal Office of Public Health, Berne, Switzerland.
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  • Christian Binggeli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich
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  • Johannes Holzmeister, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich
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  • Corinna Brunckhorst, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich
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  • Roger Luechinger, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH, Zurich
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  • Firat Duru, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Center, Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich

Received 31 August 2006 ,Accepted 8 September 2006.

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PII: S1547-5271(06)01962-X

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.09.012

Heart Rhythm
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 1-4 , January 2007

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