TITLE:
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Post Cardiotomy Acute Right Ventricle Failure in Adults
AUTHORS:
Sohail Siddique, Najdat Bazarbashi, Abdullah Ashmeg, Asif Mahmood, Abdul Aziz Alhosan, Amro Saeed
KEYWORDS:
Open Heart Surgery, Right Ventricular Failure, VA ECMO
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Vol.7 No.6,
June
21,
2017
ABSTRACT: Myriad surgical and medical remedies including Extracorporeal
Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) are being employed for acute right ventricle with varying results. Very few
cases have been documented in literature regarding the role of VA ECMO for
right ventricular failure after open heart surgery. We retrospectively analyzed
all cases eliciting VA ECMO for post-operative right heart failure over a
period of 24 months. Data was completely delineated for demography,
pre-operative patient status at length, brief venipuncture course, indications
for VA ECMO and its outcome after institution.