PMID- 32843269 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210520 LR - 20210520 IS - 1532-8422 (Electronic) IS - 1053-0770 (Linking) VI - 35 IP - 6 DP - 2021 Jun TI - Suspected Lower Extremity Ischemia After End-to-Side Femoral Arterial Grafting for VA-ECMO. PG - 1824-1829 LID - S1053-0770(20)30748-5 [pii] LID - 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.07.075 [doi] AB - Lower extremity ischemic complications are frequently encountered after femoral cannulation for venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). Many are attributed to mechanical obstruction of distal arterial blood flow related to intraluminal positioning of the arterial cannula. Routine use of distal perfusion catheters is ineffective at eliminating the development of these serious complications. Side- arm grafting instead of direct arterial cannulation is suggested as an alternative. Here, the authors present a case wherein a patient developed suspected lower extremity ischemia from hyperperfusion after femoral VA-ECMO cannulation during use of an arterial side- arm graft, calling into question the benefits of this cannulation strategy. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Woodward, Elliott L AU - Woodward EL AD - Department of Anesthesia, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. Electronic address: elliott.woodward@ucsf.edu. FAU - Shen, Tao AU - Shen T AD - Department of Anesthesia, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. FAU - Ramsay, James G AU - Ramsay JG AD - Department of Anesthesia, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA. LA - eng PT - Case Reports DEP - 20200730 PL - United States TA - J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth JT - Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia JID - 9110208 SB - IM MH - *Catheterization, Peripheral/adverse effects MH - *Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/adverse effects MH - Femoral Artery/diagnostic imaging/surgery MH - Humans MH - Ischemia/diagnostic imaging/etiology MH - Lower Extremity/diagnostic imaging/surgery MH - Retrospective Studies OTO - NOTNLM OT - Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation OT - compartment syndrome OT - hyperperfusion syndrome OT - ischemia OT - venous hypertension EDAT- 2020/08/28 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/21 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/27 06:00 PHST- 2020/05/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/07/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/07/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/21 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/27 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1053-0770(20)30748-5 [pii] AID - 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.07.075 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2021 Jun;35(6):1824-1829. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2020.07.075. Epub 2020 Jul 30.