Journal article
STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation: current status of the art. The old world and the new world connected
Journal of radiotherapy in practice, v 22, 67
01 Jan 2023
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Abstract
In 2017, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the highly unusual work of Washington University of St Louis Missouri (USA), purposely treating the human heart, a theretofore organ at risk (OAR), with radiation for a non-cancerous (but malignant nonetheless) arrhythmogenic focus of ventricular tachycardia (VT). Reference Cuculich, Schill and Kashani1 This was not a complete surprise since the literature had been populated with several foundational publications over the past decade. Reference Ipsen, Blanck and Oborn2–Reference Loo, Soltys and Lei5 However, for the radiation oncology profession which spent decades avoiding direct irradiation of the heart, this was nothing short of astounding.
We are now five years post-publication of the initial cohort and an estimated total number of patients treated with STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation (STAR) numbers still only in the hundreds of patients.
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- Title
- STereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation: current status of the art. The old world and the new world connected
- Creators
- Mark Trombetta - Drexel UniversityJoost Verhoeff - College Station Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Journal of radiotherapy in practice, v 22, 67
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Radiology (Radiologic Sciences)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000908418200001
- Other Identifier
- 991022207055304721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging