From the 1Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, 2Yale University School of Medicine, New
Haven, Connecticut, 3Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western …

Document Reviewers: Luis Aguinaga, MD; Timothy SE Albert, MD, FACC; Peter F. Aziz, MD,
FHRS; Alec Block, MD; Peter Brady, MB, ChB, MD; Mina Chung, MD, FACC; Michael …

With the demographic evolution of the population, patients undergoing surgery today are
older and have an increasing number of sometimes complex comorbidities. Cardiac …

Radiotherapy can affect the electronic components of a cardiac implantable electronic
device (CIED) resulting in malfunction and/or damage. We sought to assess the incidence …

The number of oncological patients who may benefit from proton beam radiotherapy (PBT)
or carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT), overall referred to as particle radiotherapy (RT), is …

Purpose Cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) were believed to possess a
tolerance dose to malfunction during radiotherapy. Although recent studies have …

Age is a risk factor for both cardiovascular disease and cancer, and as such radiation
oncologists frequently see a number of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices …

Purpose This study focused on determining risks from stereotactic radiotherapy using
flattening filter‐free (FFF) beams for patients with cardiac implantable electronic device …

With advances in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, several newer implantable cardiac
devices have become common in the surgical population. Multichamber pacemakers …

Background and purpose No evidence has been presented until now whether
recommendations given in recently issued guidelines concerning CIED-bearing patients …