Left Ventricular Unloading by Impella Device Versus Surgical Vent During Extracorporeal Life Support Sarah Tepper, BS, Muhammad Faraz Masood, MD, Moises Baltazar Garcia, BA, Molly Pisani, BA, Gregory A. Ewald, MD, John M. Lasala, MD, PhD, Richard G. Bach, MD, Jasvindar Singh, MD, Keki R. Balsara, MD, Akinobu Itoh, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages 861-867 (September 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.12.049 Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Box-and-whisker plots of pulmonary artery diastolic pressure measured before initiation of combined support with extracorporeal life support (ECLS) and percutaneous ventricular assist device (PVAD) or surgical vent and after 48 hours of support. The horizontal line in the middle of each box indicates the median; the top and bottom borders of the box mark the 75th and 25th percentiles, respectively; the whiskers mark the minimum and maximum values. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2017 104, 861-867DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.12.049) Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions