TY - JOUR T1 - Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and surgical embolectomy for high-risk pulmonary embolism JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01773-2018 SP - 1801773 AU - Fabio Ius AU - Marius M. Hoeper AU - Christine Fegbeutel AU - Christian Kühn AU - Karen Olsson AU - Nurbol Koigeldiyev AU - Igor Tudorache AU - Gregor Warnecke AU - Jörg Optenhöfel AU - Jakob Ono Puntigam AU - Andreas Schäfer AU - Bernhard C. Meyer AU - Jan B. Hinrichs AU - Johann Bauersachs AU - Axel Haverich AU - Serghei Cebotari Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2019/01/16/13993003.01773-2018.abstract N2 - Patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) presenting with cardiogenic shock refractory to supportive measures have a high mortality [1, 2]. Therapeutic success depends on rapid haemodynamic stabilisation and restoration of pulmonary blood flow. Thrombolytic therapy is the most widely used recanalization strategy, but this treatment has substantial drawbacks including a high rate of bleeding complications and limited efficacy in patients with large embolic burden or in patients with recurrent PE presenting with acute-on-chronic events [3–8].FootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the European Respiratory Journal. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJ online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article.Conflict of interest: Dr. Ius has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Hoeper reports personal fees from Actelion, Bayer, GSK and Merck, outside the submitted work.Conflict of interest: Dr. Fegbeutel has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Kühn has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Olsson reports personal fees from Actelion, outside the submitted work.Conflict of interest: Dr. Koigeldiyev has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Tudorache has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Warnecke has nothing to disclose.Jörg OptenhofelConflict of interest: Dr. Puntigam has nothing to disclose.Andreas SchaferConflict of interest: Dr. Meyer has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Hinrichs has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Bauersachs has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Haverich has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Cebotari has nothing to disclose. ER -