Bridge to Lung Transplantation Through a Pulmonary Artery to Left Atrial Oxygenator Circuit Christof Schmid, MD, Alois Philipp, Michael Hilker, MD, Matthias Arlt, MD, Benedikt Trabold, MD, Michael Pfeiffer, MD, Franz-Xaver Schmid, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 1202-1205 (April 2008) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.032 Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Time course of paracorporeal artificial lung (PAL) blood flow (solid circles) and cardiac output (open circles). Arrows mark time points of oxygenator exchange. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 85, 1202-1205DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.032) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Time course of oxygen transfer (solid circles) and carbon dioxide elimination (open circles). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 85, 1202-1205DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.032) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 3 Time course of pO2 (solid circles) and pCO2 (open circles) in the pulmonary artery (mm Hg), as well as of the central venous saturation (SvO2 % [gray boxes]). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 85, 1202-1205DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.032) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 4 Time course of platelets (solid circles) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) (open circles). Arrow marks time point of oxygenator thrombosis. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2008 85, 1202-1205DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.032) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions