Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to durable mechanical circulatory support or heart transplantation.
Breanna HansenTahli Singer EnglarRobert ColePedro CatarinoDavid ChangLawrence S CzerDominic EmersonDael GeftJon KobashigawaDominick MegnaDanny RamzyJaime MoriguchiFardad EsmailianMichelle KittlesonPublished in: The International journal of artificial organs (2022)
Patients on ECMO who undergo HTx, with or without dMCS bridge, have acceptable post-HTx survival. These findings suggest that HTx from ECMO is a viable option for carefully selected patients deemed acceptable to proceed with definitive advanced therapies, especially in the era of the new UNOS allocation system.