Sepsis in postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock patients supported with veno- arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Background: Sepsis could affect the outcomes of patients with postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Our objectives were to characterize sepsis patients with ECMO support for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock and assess its predictors and effect on patients' outcomes.

Methods: This retrospective study included 103 patients with ECMO for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock from 2009 to 2020.

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock: The impact of cannulation strategy on survival.

Background: The optimal venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) cannulation strategy in patients with postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock is still debatable. Studies evaluating the effect of cannulation strategy on long-term survival are scarce.

Objectives: We investigated the impact of central versus peripheral cannulation strategy for ECMO insertion on hospital outcomes and survival in postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock patients.

Conventional hemofiltration during cardiopulmonary bypass increases the serum lactate level in adult cardiac surgery.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of hemofiltration during cardiopulmonary bypass on lactate level in adult patients who underwent cardiac surgery.

Design: An observational study.

Setting: Prince Sultan cardiac center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Primitive cardiac sarcomas: about 2 cases.

Background: the cardiac sarcomas, although very rare, represent the quasi-totality of the primitive sly tumors of the heart

Aim: it is about a retrospective study of two cases of cardiac sarcomas operated in Sahloul university hospital of Sousse.

Cases: it is about a woman and a man: The respective ages were 22 and 45 years. The clinical pattern of the patients was polymorphic and the diagnosis put by cardiac echography.

[Cor triatriatum: of six operated patients report].

Six cases of cortriatriatum operated between January 1990 and April 2004. Their ages ranged from 3 months to 22 years. Associated lesions are present in 4 patients.