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ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2025

Case Report: Case of cardiac metastases from melanoma, treated by stereotactic radiotherapy, using a MICRA implant.

Mehdi Belbachir, Nicolas Danthez, David Rotzinger, Antiochos Panagiotis, Etienne Pruvot, Veronique Vallet, Maude Gondre, Gregoire Berthod, Sofia Latifyan, Rita Demicheli and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mehdi BelbachirDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nicolas DanthezDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
David RotzingerDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Antiochos PanagiotisDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Etienne PruvotDepartment of Cardiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Veronique ValletDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Maude GondreDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Gregoire BerthodDepartment of Oncology, Valais Hospital, Sion, Switzerland.
Sofia LatifyanDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Rita DemicheliDepartment of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Luis SchiappacasseDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Metastatic melanomas with prolonged survival are becoming increasingly common. We present the case of a 47-year-old man with melanoma who developed asymptomatic cardiac metastases, whose prognosis depended on their response to either systemic or focal treatment. Consequently, a CyberKnife radiotherapy treatment was performed using a pacemaker for tracking. Instead of using a pacemaker lead, we report here the successful use of a leadless pacemaker (Micra, Medtronic) as a fiducial reference for the tracking, which proved to be reproducible during all sessions. The planning target treatment volume was 161.58 cm

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cardiac metastasiscase reportCyberKnifemelanomaradiotherapySBRT

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