ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2017
Impact of Right Ventricular Performance in Patients Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Following Cardiac Surgery.
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- Prognostic models for mortality risk in patients requiring ECMO.Intensive care medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Optimization of Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Weaning: Hemodynamic Targets, Predictive Indicators, and Future Algorithm.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Impact of prognostic nutritional index on mortality among patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a retrospective cohort study.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2025Observational
- Postcardiotomy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients older than 70 years: Characteristics, outcomes, and variables associated with mortality.JTCVS open · 2025Article
- Effect of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation initiation timing on tricuspid valve surgery outcomes.JTCVS open · 2023Article
- Exploration of the Utility of Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography During Mechanical Ventilation and Mechanical Circulatory Support.Critical care explorations · 2022Review
- Impact of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation on Right Ventricular Function After Heart Transplantation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Extracorporeal organ support (ECOS) in critical illness and acute kidney injury: from native to artificial organ crosstalk.Intensive care medicine · 2018Review
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15 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation following cardiac surgery safeguards end-organ oxygenation but unfavorably alters cardiac hemodynamics. Along with the detrimental effects of cardiac surgery to the right heart, this might impact outcome, particularly in patients with preexisting right ventricular (RV) dysfunction. We sought to determine the prognostic impact of RV function and to improve established risk-prediction models in this vulnerable patient cohort. METHODS AND
resultsOf 240 patients undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support following cardiac surgery, 111 had echocardiographic examinations at our institution before implantation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and were thus included. Median age was 67 years (interquartile range 60-74), and 74 patients were male. During a median follow-up of 27 months (interquartile range 16-63), 75 patients died. Fifty-one patients died within 30 days, 75 during long-term follow-up (median follow-up 27 months, minimum 5 months, maximum 125 months). Metrics of RV function were the strongest predictors of outcome, even stronger than left ventricular function (
conclusionsRV function is strongly linked to mortality, even after adjustment for baseline variables and clinical risk scores. RV performance improves established risk prediction models for short- and long-term mortality.
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