Intraoperative Goal-Directed Perfusion Improves Outcomes in Left Ventricular Assist Device Explant Heart Transplantation.
Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) explant heart transplantation represents a metabolically vulnerable population with an increased risk for renal failure and mortality. Oxygen extraction ratio (O2ER), which integrates oxygen delivery and tissue oxygen demand, may provide a physiologic marker of cumulative metabolic...