Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Bridge to Heart-Lung Transplantation
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Bridge to Heart-Lung Transplantation
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DOI:
10.1097/mat.0000000000001457
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发表时间:
2022-03-01
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4.2
通讯作者:
Woo, Y. Joseph
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作者:
Shudo, Yasuhiro;Elde, Stefan;Woo, Y. Joseph
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a versatile mechanical circulatory support technique that may be used as salvage therapy to mitigate end-organ dysfunction and potentially serve as a bridge to transplantation. 2 Nevertheless, in a study utilizing the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) database of about 1,000 patients undergoing HLTx, pretransplant ECMO was shown to be a significant predictor of death or retransplantation. 3 The UNOS changed the heart allocation policy in the United States in October 2018. 4 More categories were introduced to better stratify the urgency for recipients of heart transplants from three categories (status 1A, 1B, and 2) to 6 categories (status 1–6). Because HLTx candidates are normally listed as status 4 or 5 in the new system (rather than as status 1B or 2 in the prior system), the role of ECMO as a bridge to HLTx is anticipated to increase. Thus, the aim of this study was to review the impact of ECMO as a bridge to HLTx using the Stanford University Database. We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent HLTx at Stanford University Hospital between January 2013 and June 2020. Patients were divided into two groups based on the requirement of pretransplant ECMO placement as a bridge to HLTx. Baseline demographics comprised age, sex, body mass index (kg/m2), blood type, primary diagnosis, history of hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, hemodialysis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), history of stoke, history of previous sternotomy, and history of tobacco usage. Intraoperative data comprised total allograft ischemic time, warm ischemic time, cardiopulmonary bypass time, and cross-clamp time. Postoperative outcomes comprised length of hospital and intensive care unit stays, and 30 day, 1 year, 3 year, 5 year, and overall mortality.Studies involving this dataset are considered exempt from review by the Institutional Review Board of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Continuous variables are presented as mean±standard deviation, and differences between groups were evaluated by nonparameteric Wilcoxon rank sum test. The χ2 test was used to compare categorical variables. Survival curves were constructed using the Kaplan–Meier method, stratified by pretransplant ECMO usage, and tested by the log-rank test. p values< 0.05 were considered statistically significant. All analyses were performed using SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC).