Radiation effect on implanted pacemakers.
It was previously thought that diagnostic or therapeutic ionizing radiation did not have an adverse effect on the function of cardiac pacemakers. Recently, however, some authors have reported damaging effect of the therapeutic radiation on cardiac pulse generators. An analysis of a recently-extracted pacemaker documented the effect of the radiation on the pacemaker pulse generator.
D000368:Aged; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011830:Radiation Effects