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ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2018

Extracorporeal support, during and after lung transplantation: the history of an idea.

Fabio Ius, Igor Tudorache, Gregor Warnecke

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Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. [Innovations in transplantation medicine].Innere Medizin (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025
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  13. Discontinuation of ECMO-a review with a note on Indian scenario.Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2023
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  17. Intraoperative use of extracorporeal COJournal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Fabio IusDepartment of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Igor TudoracheDepartment of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Gregor WarneckeDepartment of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During recent years, continuous technological innovation has provoked an increase of extracorporeal life support (ECLS) use for perioperative cardiopulmonary support in lung transplantation. Initial results were disappointing, due to ECLS-specific complications and high surgical risk of the supported patients. However, the combination of improved patient management, multidisciplinary team work and standardization of ECLS protocols has recently yielded excellent results in several case series from high-volume transplant centres. Therein, it was demonstrated that, although the prevalence of complications remains higher in supported patients, there may be no difference in long-term graft function between supported and non-supported patients. These results are important, because most of the patients who require ECLS support in lung transplantation are young and have no other chance to survive, but to be transplanted. Moreover, there is no device for "bridging to destination" therapy in lung transplantation. Of note, the evidence in favour of ECLS support in lung transplantation was never validated by randomized controlled trials, but by everyday experience at the patient bed-side. Here, we review the state-of-the-art ECLS evidence for intraoperative and postoperative cardiopulmonary support in lung transplantation.

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Extracorporeal life support (ECLS)lung transplantationoutcomes

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PMID30233890
PMCPMC6129923

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