Population
7 patients (age 8 months to 28 years) with cardiac failure on venoarterial ECMO with left atrial hypertension.
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
until hospital discharge
Authors
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Case series supports feasibility of transseptal LA drain in VA-ECMO; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Transseptal placement of a left atrial drain incorporated into the ECMO circuit is a feasible and effective technique for left atrial decompression in patients with severe myocardial dysfunction on venoarterial ECMO.
Aiyagari et al. (2006) studied this question.
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