Unloading the left ventricle in venoarterial extracorporeal life support: The urgent need of speaking the same language!

• Paolo Meani, MD,
• Mariusz Kowalewski, MD, PhD,
• Giuseppe Maria Raffa, MD, PhD,
• Roberto Lorusso, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Paolo Meani, MD

Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, ECLS Centrum, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands

Mariusz Kowalewski, MD, PhD

Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, ECLS Centrum, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands; Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Giuseppe Maria Raffa, MD, PhD

Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, ECLS Centrum, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands; Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, ISMETT-IRCCS, Palermo, Italy

Roberto Lorusso, MD, PhD

Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, ECLS Centrum, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands; Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands