PMID- 35340846 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220506 LR - 20220506 IS - 1432-2277 (Electronic) IS - 0934-0874 (Print) IS - 0934-0874 (Linking) VI - 35 DP - 2022 TI - Post-Transplant Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Primary Graft Dysfunction to Support the Use of Marginal Donor Hearts. PG - 10176 LID - 10.3389/ti.2022.10176 [doi] LID - 10176 AB - Severe primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is the leading cause of early postoperative mortality following orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) has been used as salvage therapy. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes in adult OHT recipients who underwent VA-ECMO for severe PGD. We retrospectively reviewed 899 adult (>/=18 years) patients who underwent primary OHT at our institution between 1997 and 2017. Recipients treated with VA-ECMO (19, 2.1%) exhibited a higher incidence of previous cardiac surgery (p = .0220), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (p = .0352), and treatment with a calcium channel blocker (p = .0018) and amiodarone (p = .0148). Cardiopulmonary bypass (p = .0410) and aortic cross-clamp times (p = .0477) were longer in the VA-ECMO cohort and they were more likely to have received postoperative transfusion (p = .0013); intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP, p < .0001), and reoperation for bleeding or tamponade (p < .0001). The 30-day, 1-year, and overall survival after transplantation of non-ECMO patients were 95.9, 88.8, and 67.4%, respectively, compared to 73.7, 57.9, and 47.4%, respectively in the ECMO cohort. Fourteen (73.7%) of the ECMO patients were weaned after a median of 7 days following OHT (range: 1-12 days). Following OHT, VA-ECMO may be a useful salvage therapy for severe PGD and can potentially support the usage of marginal donor hearts. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Shudo, Alassar, Wang, Lingala, He, Zhu, Hiesinger, MacArthur, Boyd, Lee, Currie and Woo. FAU - Shudo, Yasuhiro AU - Shudo Y AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Alassar, Aiman AU - Alassar A AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Wang, Hanjay AU - Wang H AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Lingala, Bharathi AU - Lingala B AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - He, Hao AU - He H AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Zhu, Yuanjia AU - Zhu Y AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Hiesinger, William AU - Hiesinger W AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - MacArthur, John W AU - MacArthur JW AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Boyd, Jack H AU - Boyd JH AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Lee, Anson M AU - Lee AM AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Currie, Maria AU - Currie M AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. FAU - Woo, Y Joseph AU - Woo YJ AD - Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220310 PL - Switzerland TA - Transpl Int JT - Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation JID - 8908516 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - *Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/adverse effects MH - *Heart Transplantation/adverse effects MH - Humans MH - *Primary Graft Dysfunction/epidemiology/etiology/therapy MH - Retrospective Studies MH - Tissue Donors PMC - PMC8943911 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ECMO OT - heart transplantation OT - marginal donor heart OT - outcomes OT - primary graft dysfunction COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/03/29 06:00 MHDA- 2022/05/07 06:00 PMCR- 2022/03/10 CRDT- 2022/03/28 05:17 PHST- 2021/11/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/01/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/03/28 05:17 [entrez] PHST- 2022/03/29 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/05/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/10 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10176 [pii] AID - 10.3389/ti.2022.10176 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Transpl Int. 2022 Mar 10;35:10176. doi: 10.3389/ti.2022.10176. eCollection 2022.