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Effects of Additional Intra-aortic Balloon Counter-Pulsation Therapy to Cardiogenic Shock Patients Supported by Extra-corporeal Membranous Oxygenation.

Friday, April 8, 2016

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Source Name: Scientific Reports

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Lin LY, Liao CW, Wang CH, Chi NH, Yu HY, Chou NK, Hwang JJ, Lin JL, Chiang FT, Chen YS.

ECMO is widely used for cardiogenic shock treatment.  Since peripheral V-A ECMO will increase LV afterload and IABP therapy can counterbalance it, will IABP combined with ECMO improve the outcomes? A total of 529 patients (227 ECMO alone and 302 combined IABP plus ECMO) were included.  Compared with ECMO alone, combined IABP and ECMO treatment did not improve outcomes.  Limitation: this is an observational cohort study, large scale randomized controlled standardized trial is needed.

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Ok , but if the ECMO works as a IAP,in a pulsatail mode does that improve the outcome.

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