Should heart failure patients be left to fate? Temporary implementation of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for haemodynamic support during excision of rectal carcinoma in an end-stage biventricular heart failure patient

Management of end-stage heart failure patients requiring major general surgery is not well defined. Due to poor cardiorespiratory reserve, perioperative morbidity and mortality are excessively high. We report a case of temporary implementation of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for...

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Autores principales: Hergesell, Vera, Mathew, Erwin, Kornprat, Peter, Knez, Igor, Mischinger, Hans-Joerg, Dapunt, Otto, Spiliopoulos, Sotirios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30083321
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X18789217

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