ECMO-supported intervention for chronic centrally occluded pulmonary arteries
Hesham Salah El-Din Taha, Omar Younis, Mirna Mamdouh · 2026
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Description
Hesham Salah El-Din Taha and colleagues report a high-stakes rescue of a man whose lung arteries were chronically blocked. A 55-year-old West African man first showed up with a large saddle embolus. It fully blocked the left lung artery and nearly blocked the right. He later came back in shock, with oxygen at 81 percent. Surgery to strip the clots was judged unsuitable at that stage. This 2026 case report describes the catheter-based alternative.
With veno-arterial ECMO, a heart-lung support circuit, backing two sessions, operators reopened both arteries with aspiration, wires, balloons, and a stent. Mean pulmonary artery pressure fell from 89 to 59 millimetres of mercury by the second session. The authors present ECMO-supported intervention as a viable path when chronic central blockage and shock rule out surgery.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Hesham Salah El-Din Taha, Omar Younis, Mirna Mamdouh |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |