Bridge to Transplant: Central Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With Pulmonary Artery Drainage

Yatrik Patel; John W Stokes; Whitney D Gannon; James T Zorn; Jordan Hoffman; Ashish S Shah; Matthew Bacchetta

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.02.036

Bridge to Transplant: Central Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With Pulmonary Artery Drainage

Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Dec;114(6):e427-e429. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.02.036. Epub 2022 Mar 5.

Authors

Yatrik Patel¹, John W Stokes¹, Whitney D Gannon², James T Zorn¹, Jordan Hoffman¹, Ashish S Shah¹, Matthew Bacchetta³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
² Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 35257674
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.02.036

Abstract

Providing optimal support in patients with concomitant cardiac and pulmonary failure presents multiple challenges. We report a novel approach to central extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support using a minimal access approach to successfully bridge a patient to heart-lung transplant.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Drainage
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation*
Heart-Lung Transplantation*
Humans
Pulmonary Artery / surgery
Respiratory Insufficiency*