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Impact of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation or Mechanical Ventilation as Bridge to Combined Heart-Lung Transplantation on Short-Term and Long-Term Survival

Senthil Jayarajan, Sharven Taghavi, Eugene Komaroff, Stacey Brann, Tetsuya Horai, Francis Cordova, Namrata Patel, T. Sloane Guy, Yoshiya Toyoda

Transplantation · 2013 · 24 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

HLT recipients bridged by MV or ECMO have increased short-term and long-term mortality. Further studies are needed to optimize survival in these high-risk patients.

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Institutional experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in lung transplantation☆

Clemens Aigner, Wilfried Wisser, Shahrokh Taghavi et al. · European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery · 2007 · 237 citations · Full text

Should lung transplantation be performed for patients on mechanical respiratory support? The US experience

David P. Mason, Lucy Thuita, Edward R. Nowicki et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2009 · 233 citations · Full text

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Bridge to lung transplantation with the novel pumpless interventional lung assist device NovaLung

Stefan Fischer, André Simon, Tobias Welte et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 2006 · 233 citations · Full text

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Bridge to Thoracic Organ Transplantation in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Using a Pumpless Lung Assist Device

M. Strueber, Marius M. Hoeper, Stefan Fischer et al. · American Journal of Transplantation · 2009 · 220 citations · Full text