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How do you approach radiation therapy for a target volume adjacent to a WATCHMAN atrial appendage closure device?

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Radiation Oncology · Tennessee Oncology

The WATCHMAN is a non-electronic device so it does not carry the same concerns for device disruption for which we have dose limits (i.e. pacemaker, ICD, etc.). There could be a consideration of the impact of radiation dose on healing/tissue formation over the device in the period immediately after p...

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