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What are the rates and predictors of device malfunction in cancer patients with pacemakers or ICDs undergoing external beam radiotherapy?
What are the rates and predictors of device malfunction in cancer patients with pacemakers or ICDs undergoing external beam radiotherapy?
Radiotherapy-induced malfunctions in pacemakers and ICDs are infrequent and usually transient, but the risk is significantly increased with high beam energy (≥15 MV).
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High beam energy associated with more CIED malfunctions during RT; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Zaremba et al. (2015) studied this question.
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