PMID- 32678961 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20201022 LR - 20220720 IS - 1540-8191 (Electronic) IS - 0886-0440 (Print) IS - 0886-0440 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 10 DP - 2020 Oct TI - Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and COVID-19: The causes of failure. PG - 2838-2843 LID - 10.1111/jocs.14867 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) is a therapeutic strategy for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). There are inconclusive data in this regard and causes of VV-ECMO failure are not yet understood well. CASE SERIES: Here, seven patients with COVID-19-induced ARDS who underwent VV-ECMO introduced and causes of VV-ECMO failure discussed. Medical records of seven COVID-19 patients treated with VV-ECMO were retrospectively evaluated to determine the clinical outcomes of VV-ECMO. Oxygenator failure occurred in four patients whom needed to oxygenator replacement. Successful VV-ECMO decannulation was done in three patients, however finally one patient survived. CONCLUSIONS: Hypercoagulability state and oxygenator failure were the most main etiologies for VV-ECMO failure in our study. All patients with COVID-19 undergoing VV-ECMO should be monitored for such problems and highly specialized healthcare team should monitor the patients during VV-ECMO. CI - (c) 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Ahmadi, Zargham Hossein AU - Ahmadi ZH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2982-9950 AD - Lung Transplantation Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Jahangirifard, Alireza AU - Jahangirifard A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5514-3768 AD - Lung Transplantation Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Farzanegan, Behrooz AU - Farzanegan B AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6353-5761 AD - Tracheal Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Tabarsi, Payam AU - Tabarsi P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6786-1524 AD - Clinical Tuberculosis and Epidemiology Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Abtahian, Zahra AU - Abtahian Z AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7167-8503 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Abedini, Atefeh AU - Abedini A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4262-9873 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Sharifi, Mehrzad AU - Sharifi M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3105-041X AD - Lung Transplantation Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Jadbabaei, Amir Naser AU - Jadbabaei AN AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6955-0092 AD - Lung Transplantation Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Mafhumi, Yadollah AU - Mafhumi Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5882-6425 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Moslem, Ali AU - Moslem A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1414-4753 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Sistani, Marjan AU - Sistani M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8062-6948 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Yousefian, Sahar AU - Yousefian S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0829-6136 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Saffaei, Ali AU - Saffaei A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9563-924X AD - Student Research Committee, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Dastan, Farzaneh AU - Dastan F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7253-4333 AD - Chronic Respiratory Diseases Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. AD - Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. LA - eng PT - Case Reports DEP - 20200717 PL - United States TA - J Card Surg JT - Journal of cardiac surgery JID - 8908809 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Aged MH - *Betacoronavirus MH - COVID-19 MH - Coronavirus Infections/complications/epidemiology/*therapy MH - Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/*adverse effects MH - Humans MH - Middle Aged MH - Pandemics MH - Pneumonia, Viral/complications/epidemiology/*therapy MH - Respiratory Distress Syndrome/etiology/*therapy MH - Retrospective Studies MH - SARS-CoV-2 MH - Treatment Failure PMC - PMC7404852 OTO - NOTNLM OT - SARS coronavirus OT - SARS-CoV infection OT - acute respiratory distress syndrome OT - extracorporeal membrane oxygenation OT - hypercoagulability COIS- The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests. EDAT- 2020/07/18 06:00 MHDA- 2020/10/23 06:00 PMCR- 2020/07/17 CRDT- 2020/07/18 06:00 PHST- 2020/05/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/19 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/07/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/07/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/10/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/07/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/07/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JOCS14867 [pii] AID - 10.1111/jocs.14867 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Card Surg. 2020 Oct;35(10):2838-2843. doi: 10.1111/jocs.14867. Epub 2020 Jul 17.