Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Combined With Embolectomy May Yield Better Outcomes Than Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Alone or With Thrombolysis for Acute High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism.
Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is used to support patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (HR-PE) with cardiogenic shock, but data on mid- and long-term outcomes after reperfusion remain limited. We retrospectively compared outcomes after ECMO with embolectomy, ECMO with thrombolysis, or EC...