Survival and Long-Term Functional Status of COVID-19 Patients Requiring Prolonged Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support.

Severe cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may require prolonged (>28 d) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). In nonresolving disease, recovery is uncertain, and lung transplant may be proposed. This study aims to identify the variables influencing survival and to describe the functional status of these patients at 6 months.

Genetic profile in patients with complicated acute aortic syndrome: the GEN-AOR study.

Introduction And Objectives: Genetic testing is becoming increasingly important for diagnosis and personalized treatments in aortopathies. Here, we aimed to genetically diagnose a group of acute aortic syndrome (AAS) patients consecutively admitted to an intensive care unit and to explore the clinical usefulness of AAS-associated variants during treatment decision-making and family traceability.

Methods: We applied targeted next-generation sequencing, covering 42 aortic diseases genes in AAS patients with no signs consistent with syndromic conditions.

Normothermic Regional Perfusion and Donation After Circulatory Death (Controlled and Uncontrolled): Metabolic Differences and Kidney Transplantation Evolution.

Objective: To analyze metabolic differences during normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) between the dissimilar types of donation after circulatory death, uncontrolled (uDCD) and controlled (cDCD), and the evolution of the transplanted kidneys.

Methods: Observational, prospective, cohort study. We included patients from uDCD and cDCD maintained with NRP in 2017.