Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as a bridge to durable mechanical circulatory support or heart transplantation

Autor: Breanna Hansen, Tahli Singer Englar, Robert Cole, Pedro Catarino, David Chang, Lawrence Czer, Dominic Emerson, Dael Geft, Jon Kobashigawa, Dominick Megna, Danny Ramzy, Jaime Moriguchi, Fardad Esmailian, Michelle Kittleson
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The International Journal of Artificial Organs. 45:604-614
ISSN: 1724-6040
0391-3988
DOI: 10.1177/03913988221103284
Popis: Background: Patients with cardiogenic shock may require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) prior to durable mechanical circulatory support (dMCS) or heart transplantation (HTx). Methods: We investigated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of adult patients with ECMO support as bridge to dMCS or HTx between 1/1/13 and 12/31/20. Results: Of 57 patients who underwent bridging ECMO, 41 (72%) received dMCS (approximately half with biventricular support) and 16 (28%) underwent HTx, 13 (81%) after the 2018 UNOS allocation system change. ECMO → HTx patients had shorter ventilatory time (3.5 vs 7.5 days; p = 0.018), ICU stay (6 vs 18 days; p = 0.001), and less need for inpatient rehabilitation (18.8% vs 57.5%; p = 0.016). The 1-year survival post HTx was 81.3% in the ECMO → HTx group and 86.4% in the ECMO → dMCS group ( p = 0.11). For those patients in the ECMO → dMCS group who did not undergo HTx, 1-year survival was significantly lower, 31.6% ( p = 0.001). Conclusion: 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.
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