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Published on: January 17, 2025
Additional Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Pump Without an Oxygenator for Transseptal Left Atrial Decompression:
Jun Ho Yang1, Jong Woo Kim, Dong Hoon Kang
1From the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine and Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
A 63-year-old man developed chest pain and dyspnea. Venoarterial-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was applied to the patient due to failing heart after percutaneous coronary intervention. We used an additional ECMO pump without an oxygenator for transseptal left atrial (LA) decompression and performed a heart transplant. Transseptal LA decompression with venoarterial ECMO is not always effective for severe left ventricular dysfunction. Here, we report a case of the effective use of additional ECMO pump without an oxygenator for transseptal LA decompression through controlling the blood flow rate of the transseptal LA catheter.
