Exploring physical activity preferences and motivation in long-term cardiac prevention: An Austrian cross-sectional survey.

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients often do not sustain physical activity (PA) behaviour in the long run, once they progress into a self-management stage of secondary prevention. This study aimed to explore former CR patients' PA preferences, determinants (i.e.

Use and perceptions of digital technology for daily life, physical activity and health information among former cardiac rehabilitation patients in Austria: A cross-sectional survey.

Objective: Digital health technologies offer great potential to improve access and adherence to cardiovascular disease secondary prevention measures such as regular physical activity (PA). However, the use and perceptions of digital technology (DT) among cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients are not well understood. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the use of DT in former CR patients' daily lives, for PA and for health information; and to gain insight into patient perceptions of DT for PA, including barriers, facilitators and requested features.

Safe performance of magnetic resonance of the heart in patients with magnetic resonance conditional pacemaker systems: the safety issue of the ESTIMATE study.

Background: No published data exist about the safety of diagnostic magnetic resonance (MR) of the heart performed in a larger series of patients implanted with MR conditional pacemakers (PM). The purpose of our study is to analyse safety and potential alterations of electrical lead parameters in patients implanted with the EnRhythm/Advisa MRI SureScan PM with 5086MRI leads (Medtronic Inc.) during and after MR of the heart at 1.

[Clinical relevance and indications for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging 2013: an interdisciplinary expert statement].

During the last years the indications of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMRI) have been continuously expanded. However, the acceptance of the method by cardiologists and radiologists does not correlate with respect to the diagnostic potential. Several factors, such as expensive equipment, relatively long examination times, high technical know how and lack of remuneration, limit the application of CMRI in everyday clinical practice.

Clinical routine implantation of a dual chamber pacemaker system designed for safe use with MRI: a single center, retrospective study on lead performance of Medtronic lead 5086MRI in comparison to Medtronic leads 4592-53 and 4092-58.

Aims: We report our experience concerning lead performance and re-surgery rate of the Medtronic EnRhythm MRI SureScan pacemaker system (MRI-PM) in comparison to standard pacemaker (PM) systems and leads used at our institution.

Methods: All patients (except patients with transvenous left ventricular leads) with successful PM implantation performed at our institution from 1 March 2009 to 31 October 2009 were included in this analysis and followed until mid January 2010. Lead measurements (assessed at implantation, prehospital discharge interrogation (1st follow-up) and at the first scheduled out-patient follow-up (2nd follow-up) were compared between atrial leads 4592-53 cm and 5086MRI-52 cm (lead group 1), and between ventricular leads 4092-58 cm and 5086MRI-52 cm/-58 cm (lead group 2), respectively.