How to Manage Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices Undergoing Radiation Therapy

Michael G Fradley; Bénédicte Lefebvre; Joseph Carver; Jim W Cheung; Steven J Feigenberg; Rachel Lampert; Jennifer Liu; Bharath Rajagopalan; Daniel J Lenihan

doi:10.1016/j.jaccao.2021.08.005

How to Manage Patients With Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices Undergoing Radiation Therapy

JACC CardioOncol. 2021 Sep 21;3(3):447-451. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2021.08.005. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Authors

Michael G Fradley¹, Bénédicte Lefebvre¹, Joseph Carver¹, Jim W Cheung², Steven J Feigenberg³, Rachel Lampert⁴, Jennifer Liu⁵, Bharath Rajagopalan⁶, Daniel J Lenihan⁷

Affiliations

¹ Cardio-Oncology Translational Center of Excellence, Division of Cardiology and Abramson Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease/Electrophysiology), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁵ Cardiology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ Prairie Heart Institute, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
⁷ Cardio-Oncology Center of Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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Keywords: CIED, cardiac implantable electronic device; ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator; RT, radiation therapy; arrhythmia; photon therapy; radiation physics.

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