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To examine the MRI safety of metallic coils and Amplatzer vascular plugs. Currently, concern regarding MR safety of devices used to treat pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) causes delays in performing emergency MRI in patients presenting with acute neurological symptoms. A retrospective audit was performed on all patients who underwent PAVM embolization at Hammersmith Hospital, London UK between 1984 and 2017. Outcomes of all MRI studies performed at our institution were recorded. In addition, known outcomes of all known MRI studies performed on patients treated with the earliest steel coils (1984-1995) were recorded. At our institution, 20 patients underwent 1.5 T MRI after the insertion of 100 steel coils (15.5 - 28.6, median 22 years later), 140 coils designated MR-conditional (0.42 - 12.7, median 9.3 years later), and 54 MRI-conditional Amplatzer vascular plugs (0.17 - 8.0, median 0.75 years later) The findings demonstrate MR safety at 1.5 T of all PAVM embolization devices inserted in a main UK centre since inception in 1984. MRI of patients who have had PAVMs treated by embolization can be implemented without contacting specialist pulmonary arteriovenous malformation treatment centres for approval.