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Extracorporeal membranous oxygenation and left atrial decompression: a fast and minimally invasive approach
Virginie Fouilloux1, Lionel Lebrun, Loic Macé
1Department of Thoracic and Cardio-vascular Surgery, Paediatric Cardiology, Timone Children's Hospital, Marseille, France. virginie.fouilloux@ap-hm.fr
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 31, 2011
Abstract:
Left atrial decompression for patients under extracorporeal membranous oxygenation is sometimes mandatory, but it may be technically difficult. We describe a safe and minimally invasive technique to perform this while placing a small cannula antegradely in the pulmonary artery trunk.
