Mechanical Support & Transplant
Renal cell carcinoma extends into the venous system in up to 10 percent of cases. When the thrombus reaches the right atrium (Mayo level IV), three factors determine operative risk (1): Tumor embolization during mobilization...
…This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Luca Di Marco, a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Bologna University Hospital, Italy, about...
In this study of 4,854 brain-dead donors from three U.S. organ procurement organizations, the donor PaO2 trajectory strongly influenced lung procurement: More than 75 percent had low initial PaO2, but...
In this analysis of the Cardiogenic Shock Working Group registry, 1,502 of 11,386 patients with cardiogenic shock received venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO), more than half with concurrent temporary mechanical...
In this two-center Italian case series of six beating-heart transplants from controlled donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors, thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion restored satisfactory biventricular function and enabled in situ...
