PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Le Guennec, Loic
AU  - Schmidt, Matthieu
AU  - Clarençon, Frédéric
AU  - Elhfnawy, Ahmed Mohamed
AU  - Baronnet, Flore
AU  - Kalamarides, Michel
AU  - Lebreton, Guillaume
AU  - Luyt, Charles-Edouard
TI  - Mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke patients under venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
AID  - 10.1136/neurintsurg-2019-015407
DP  - 2020 May 01
TA  - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery
PG  - 486--488
VI  - 12
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/5/486.short
4100  - http://jnis.bmj.com/content/12/5/486.full
SO  - J NeuroIntervent Surg2020 May 01; 12
AB  - Background Use of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) in adult patients to treat refractory cardiogenic shock has increased in recent years, and ischemic stroke is the most frequent VA-ECMO-induced cerebrovascular complication. No adult case of mechanical thrombectomy (MT) has been reported.Methods Retrospective observational study of hospital medical records of patients who received circulatory support with VA-ECMO with acute ischemic stroke treated with MT, from 2006 to 2018.Results Two adult patients on VA-ECMO with acute ischemic stroke treated with MT were found. Both cases were successfully treated.Conclusion These cases illustrate the feasibility of performing MT in adult patients on ECMO.