After the storm comes a calm: the (rather good) post-discharge survival of adults undergoing post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support

Roberto Lorusso^{1

2}, Mariusz Kowalewski^{3

4}, Michele Di Mauro¹, Silvia Mariani¹

Affiliations

¹ Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands.
² Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, Netherlands.
³ Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Editorial

Roberto Lorusso et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022.

. 2022 May 2;61(5):1186-1187.

doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezac094.

Roberto Lorusso^{1

2}, Mariusz Kowalewski^{3

4}, Michele Di Mauro¹, Silvia Mariani¹

¹ Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands.
² Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, Netherlands.
³ Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
⁴ Thoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiogenic shock; Extracorporeal life support; Mechanical circulatory assistance; Post-cardiotomy.

Comment on

Fate of patients weaned from post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support.
Schaefer AK, Riebandt J, Bernardi MH, Distelmaier K, Goliasch G, Zimpfer D, Laufer G, Wiedemann D. Schaefer AK, et al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022 May 2;61(5):1178-1185. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezac035. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2022. PMID: 35092269