Challenge of Pregnancy in Patients With Pre-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension: Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as an Innovative Support for Delivery

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2017 Dec;31(6):2152-2155. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2017.04.012. Epub 2017 Apr 13.

¹ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Pulmonology Unit, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy. Electronic address: pvitulo@ismett.edu.
² Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Pulmonology Unit, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy.
⁴ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Cardiology Unit, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy.
⁵ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy.
⁶ Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation Unit, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy.

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Keywords: ECMO; cesarean section; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; pulmonary hypertension.

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