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Historically, it has been reported that critically ill patients bridged with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) directly to HT have worse outcomes. However, when the heart allocation system gives the highest priority to patients on VA-ECMO support, those patients have a higher incidence of HT and a lower incidence of death or removal from the transplant list. Moreover, patients with a short waiting time on VA-ECMO have a similar hazard of mortality to non-ECMO patients. According to the reported data, bridging with VA-ECMO directly to HT may be a solution in the selection of critically ill patients when the anticipated waiting list time is short. However, when a prolonged waiting time is expected, more durable MCS should be considered. Regardless of the favorable results of the direct bridging to HT with ECMO in selected patients, the superiority of this strategy compared to the bridge-to-bridge strategy (ECMO to durable MCS) has not been established and further studies are mandatory in order to clarify this issue.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm11237101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,30]],"date-time":"2022-11-30T07:10:27Z","timestamp":1669792227000},"page":"7101","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Heart Transplant\u2014Change of Paradigm"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5631-0353","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dubravka","family":"\u0160ipu\u0161","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2269-3138","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristina","family":"Kr\u017eelj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"\u017deljko","family":"\u0110uri\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hrvoje","family":"Ga\u0161parovi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Davor","family":"Mili\u010di\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jadranka \u0160eparovi\u0107","family":"Han\u017eeva\u010dki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daniel","family":"Lovri\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Ki\u0161pati\u0107eva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1342","DOI":"10.1002\/ejhf.1858","article-title":"Epidemiology of Heart Failure","volume":"22","author":"Groenewegen","year":"2020","journal-title":"Eur. 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