Oxy Right Ventricular Assist Device Using Extracoporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Lung Transplant for Right Ventricular Failure

Purpose null Patients with IPF and cardiopulmonary failure caused by secondary pulmonary hypertension have poor prognoses. If lung oxygen exchange capacity is completely lost and secondary heart failure caused by pulmonary exacerbation was appeared, it is difficult to maintain survival via conventional peripheral ECMO alone. We used Oxy-RVAD(RA-PA ECMO) as novel configuration delivered via anterior thoracotomy to treat end-stage IPF patients...