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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult cardiac support: the Allegheny experience.

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ECMO provides good cardiopulmonary and end-organ support; survival rates are similar to or higher than those seen with centrifugal pump support in comparable patient populations.
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This article is published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.The article was published on 1999-08-01. It has received 135 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation & Membrane oxygenator.

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Outcomes and long-term quality-of-life of patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory cardiogenic shock*

TL;DR: ECMO support can rescue 40% of otherwise fatal cardiogenic shock patients but its initiation under cardiac massage or after renal or hepatic failure carried higher risks of intensive care unit death, while fulminant myocarditis had a better prognosis.
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Early and late outcomes of 517 consecutive adult patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock

TL;DR: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support is an acceptable option for patients with postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock who otherwise would die and is justified by good long-term outcome of hospital survivors.
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Contemporary extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory failure: life support in the new era.

TL;DR: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used in clinical medicine for 40 years but remains controversial therapy, particularly in adult patients with severe respiratory failure as discussed by the authors.
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Analysis and results of prolonged resuscitation in cardiac arrest patients rescued by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

TL;DR: The results indicate that a shorter CPR duration, postcardiotomy arrest, myocardial indicators, a hepatic indicator, and lactic acid are significantly correlated with both weaning and survival, whereas late damage rather than initial damage was more predictive of the results.
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock

TL;DR: Statistical analysis revealed that patients unable to be weaned from ECLS were more likely to have a critically dilated left ventricle on echocardiography and were female, whereas women and patients with persistent left ventricular dilatation are less likely to beWeaned.
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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: Preliminary results in patients with postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock

TL;DR: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation without left ventricular drainage clearly is not effective in patients undergoing mitral valve operations as it does not effectively decompress the left ventricle, but it was highly effective in treating postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock in the authors' coronary artery bypass grafting patients.
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Prolonged open sternotomy and delayed sternal closure after cardiac operations.

TL;DR: Maintenance of an open sternotomy after a complicated cardiac operation is an adjunct in the treatment of the severely impaired heart and predictors of the timing, morbidity, and prognosis of delayed sternal closure (DSC) could be determined by intensive case review.
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Heparin-coated cBypass circuits

TL;DR: Hparin-coated circuits have been safely used for extracorporeal lung assist with little or no systemic anticoagulation, and it would seem appropriate to develop heparin coating for silicone-based membrane oxygenators.
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