Replacing cardiopulmonary bypass with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in lung transplantation operations☆

Replacing cardiopulmonary bypass with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in lung transplantation operations.

Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is required in some lung transplantation (LTx) operations. However, it increases risks of bleeding and early graft dysfunction. We report our experiences of replacing CPB with heparin-bound extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in LTx operations. If extracorporeal circulation was anticipated for the LTx operations, ECMO support was set up through the femoral ve...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in lung transplantation.

The use of extracorporeal techniques in cardiopulmonary support has spread in the last 20 years. ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) devices are the most commonly employed option, and have been used for years in lung transplant programs. Nevertheless, few articles on the results of ECMO involving large numbers of cases have been published to date. The use of ECMO in respiratory failure a...

CASE REPORT Combined Lung and Liver Transplan tation With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Instead of Cardiopulmonary Bypass

From the *Department of Anesthesiology, ‡Department of Heart Surgery, ¶Department of General, Visceral, Transplant, Vascular and Thoracic surgery, #Department of Internal Medicine V (Pneumology), **Transplantation Center Munich, †Munich Lung Transplant Group, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany; and §German Center for Lung Research. Address reprint requests to Ver...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): prolonged bedside cardiopulmonary bypass.

Institutional experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in lung transplantation.

BACKGROUND Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is currently accepted in lung transplantation either to bridge patients to transplantation or to treat postoperatively arising severe primary graft failure. Based on promising initial experiences we have since 2001 implemented ECMO as the standard of intraoperative extracorporeal support in lung transplantation (LuTX) patients with haemodyna...