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Does VA-ECMO improve stabilization and survival as a bridge to surgery in patients with post-MI VSD and cardiogenic shock?
Does VA-ECMO improve stabilization and survival as a bridge to surgery in patients with post-MI VSD and cardiogenic shock?
VA-ECMO can be successfully used to stabilize patients with post-MI VSD and cardiogenic shock as a bridge to surgical repair.
VA-ECMO may stabilize select post-MI VSD shock cases for repair; hypothesis-generating and leaves open its bridge role pending prospective data.
We describe a 60-year-old woman with post-myocardial infarction (MI) ventricular septal defect (VSD) and cardiogenic shock who was successfully stabilized with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) as a bridge therapy for the surgical closure of her VSD. This case highlights the role of VA-ECMO in the management of post-MI VSD to improve the results of surgical repair and patient survival.
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