Open AccessJASTRO/JCS Guidelines for radiotherapy in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices
Author(s) -
Tomonori Ohno,
Toshinori Soejima,
Yukio Sekiguchi,
Takayuki Hashimoto,
Izumi Koike,
Hiroaki Matsubara,
Kazuhiko Nakamura,
Kazunori Nitta,
Shojiro Takahashi,
Kayoko Tsujino,
Masaru Wakatsuki,
Eisaku Yoden
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of radiation research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.643
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1349-9157
pISSN - 0449-3060
DOI - 10.1093/jrr/rraa102
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , multidisciplinary approach , medical physics , radiation oncology , medical physicist , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , social science , sociology
This publication is an English version of the Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology (JASTRO) and The Japanese Circulation Society official guidelines for patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). Several radiotherapy-associated malfunctions have been reported for CIEDs such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. Accordingly, guidelines for radiotherapy in patients with CIEDs have been issued by other countries and societies. In August 2010, JASTRO published the ‘Radiotherapy Guidelines for Patients with Pacemakers and Implantable Defibrillators’ (hereafter referred to as the former guidelines). Given new findings in this decade, a multidisciplinary working group of radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists and cardiologists jointly reviewed and revised the former guidelines.