Extracorporeal life support as a bridge to pulmonary retransplantation: prognostic factors for survival in a multicentre cohort analysis.

Ilhan Inci Jonas Peter Ehrsam Dirk E Van Raemdonck Laurens Joseph CeulemansThorsten KrügerAngela KoutsokeraMarco SchiavonEleonora FaccioliMario Nosotti Lorenzo Rosso Frank D'OvidioMiguel Leiva-JuarezClemens AignerAlexis SlamaWaleed SalehKhaled Manaa AlkattanPascal Alexandre ThomasGeoffrey BrioudeAlberto BenazzoKonrad Hoetzenecker

Published in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)

Recipients for ECLS-ReTx should be carefully selected. Risk factors, such as recipient age, intertransplant interval, primary graft dysfunction as transplant indication and type of ECLS should be kept in mind before bridging these patients on ECLS to ReTx.

Keyphrases

prognostic factors
risk factors
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
oxidative stress
pulmonary hypertension
study protocol
peritoneal dialysis
randomized controlled trial
patient reported outcomes