Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use in staged combined heart-kidney transplant

Tareq Al Saadi; Christopher Sciamanna; Ambar Andrade; Sunil Pauwaa; Gregory Macaluso; Anjali Joshi; Muhyaldeen Dia; William Cotts; Patroklos Pappas; Michael Bresticker; Antone Tatooles

doi:10.1093/jscr/rjz408

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use in staged combined heart-kidney transplant

J Surg Case Rep. 2020 Jan 20;2020(1):rjz408. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjz408. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago/Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, USA.
² Department of Cardiology, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, USA.
³ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL, USA.

Abstract

Outside of heart and lung transplantation, only few cases have been reported describing venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) use in solid organ transplantation. We present a case of a staged combined heart-kidney transplant in which VA-ECMO was utilized after a complicated orthotopic heart transplantation to successfully complete the subsequent renal transplantation.

Keywords: Orthotopic heart transplantation; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; mechanical circulatory support.

Publication types

Case Reports