Ischemic and hemorrhagic brain injury during venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Structural neurological complications (ischemic stroke and intracranial bleeding) and their risk factors in patients receiving venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) are poorly described. Our objective was to describe frequencies, outcomes and risk factors for neurological complications (ischemic stroke and intracranial bleeding) in patients receiving VA-ECMO.

Methods

Retrospective observational study conducted, from 2006 to 2014, in a tertiary referral center on patients who developed a neurological complication(s) on VA-ECMO.

Results

Among 878 VA-ECMO-treated patients, 65 (7.4%) developed an ECMO-related brain injury: 42 (5.3%) ischemic strokes and 20 (2.8%) intracranial bleeding, occurring after a median [25th;75th percentile] of 11 [

SUBMITTER: Le Guennec L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301905 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature