Extracorporeal life support and systemic inflammation

Abstract Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) encompasses a wide range of extracorporeal modalities that offer short- and intermediate-term mechanical support to the failing heart or lung. Apart from the daily use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in the operating room, there has been a resurgence of in...

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Main Authors: Abdulrahman Al-Fares, Tommaso Pettenuzzo, Lorenzo Del Sorbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-07-01
Series:Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40635-019-0249-y