TY - JOUR AU - Au, Shek-Yin AU - Fong, Ka-Man AU - Yuen, Henry Jeffrey AU - Shek, Ka-Chung Jack AU - George Ng, Wing-Yiu PY - 2019 TI - A special cause of acute coronary syndrome in patients supported with VA ECMO JF - Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine; Vol 3 (December 2019): Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - A transesophageal echocardiography was performed for a patient supported with peripheral veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA ECMO) for his acute decompensated heart failure. One of the main aims of echocardiography was to assess whether the aortic valve could open despite increased afterload from the retrograde ECMO flow. UR - https://jeccm.amegroups.org/article/view/5507