Novel Management of Atrial Septal Defect at Time of Lung Transplantation.

We present a case of young female patient with end stage lung failure due to pulmonary arterial hypertension who was failing maximal medical therapy and was listed for a single sequential lung transplantation. The challenge of the case was a concomitant presence of a large atrial septal defect (ASD). The novelty of our approach was a device closure of ASD before performing a transplant with the use of intraoperative venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). PMID: 29530771 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - March 9, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Urban M, Booth K, O'Sullivan J, Dark J Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research