ECMO

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Lung Transplant Feasibility After Lobar Resection in a Case of Pectus Excavatum and Severe Unilateral Space Loss

June 16, 2026 | Sanjay Agrawal…

A 28-year-old female initially presented in 2022 with a persistent cough. Computed tomography (CT) imaging demonstrated features consistent with pulmonary sarcoidosis, which was subsequently confirmed by bronchoscopic biopsy. She was evaluated for lung transplantation and...

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ISMICS 2026 | How to Do It Movie Session, Part 1

July 10, 2026 | Danny Ramzy…

This session features leading surgeons presenting on advanced techniques—including robotic implantation, carinal resection, and aortic valve replacement (AVR)—at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026....

JANS Article

Ice Water Drowning Survival After 147-Minute Submersion and 7 °C Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest

July 9, 2026 | Ali MashadiSilver Contributor

This case reported by Bartoli and colleagues describes the remarkable recovery of a child who survived prolonged submersion in ice-cold water, enduring more than 2.5 hours of deep hypothermic, asystolic...

Podcast

The Lifeline: ECMO vs Emergency Resternotomy for Cardiac Surgical Arrest

July 8, 2026 | Jill LeySilver Contributor…

In this edition of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the...

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Lung Transplant Feasibility After Lobar Resection in a Case of Pectus Excavatum and Severe Unilateral Space Loss

June 16, 2026 | Sanjay Agrawal…

A 28-year-old female initially presented in 2022 with a persistent cough. Computed tomography (CT) imaging demonstrated features consistent with pulmonary sarcoidosis, which was subsequently confirmed by bronchoscopic biopsy. She was...

JANS Article

Discussion of “Intraoperative Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and the Possibility of Postoperative Prolongation Improve Survival in Bilateral Lung Transplantation”

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A stimulating discussion of the Vienna paper that advances elective ECMO support for bilateral pulmonary transplantation.

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Retrieval of Severe Acute Respiratory Failure Patients on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Any Impact on Their Outcomes?

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

The latest on portable venovenous ECMO in a cohort in which half of the subjects died after a resource-intensive treatment. The results of the relevant EOLIA trial are keenly awaited.

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JANS Article

Predicting 1-Year Cardiac Transplantation Survival Using a Donor–Recipient Risk-Assessment Tool

May 3, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A somewhat delayed publication of a 2016 paper that discusses important trends in cardiac transplanation in the light of increasing use of ECMO.

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JANS Article

Timing of Surgery for Pulmonary Embolism: An Evolving Paradigm

March 27, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A succinct balanced editorial advancing, amongst other things, the position for initial nonintervention for submassive pulmonary embolism.

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JANS Article

Selective Implantation of Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices as Primary Therapy for Refractory Cardiogenic Shock

February 28, 2018 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A retrospective Mount Sinai small series on selective emergent implantation of long-term ventricular assist devices in cardiogenic shock. It challenges the traditional concept of short-term stabilisation with ECMO or short-term...

JANS Article

In Global News: A Patient With Two Hearts, ECMO for Trauma, and Stroke Risk in AFib

February 23, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care A woman in the northwest US who was thought to have drowned makes a surprising recovery, aided by a local hospital’s use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for traumatic...

JANS Article

Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support Bridge to Transplant: Avoiding a Bridge to Nowhere

November 16, 2017 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

An enthusiastic yet balanced and succinct editorial on the occasion of a small series with short follow-up and absolute survival of ECMO-supported recipients of pulmonary transplantation (mostly with interstitial fibrosis)...

JANS Article

Mid-term results of bilateral lung transplant with postoperatively extended intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe pulmonary hypertension

June 28, 2017 | Claire Vernon

The authors report on 38 patients who underwent bilateral lung transplantation for severe pulmonary hypertension with routine application of prophylactic postoperative veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). These patients’ survival up...

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