Gender-based Differences in Platelet Function and Platelet Reactivity to P2Y12 Inhibitors

Refractory cardiogenic shock is characterized by severe hemodynamic instability with high mortality rate. In most critical patients extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is the only therapy available nowadays that gives a possibility to survive.On these bases we investigated the use of percutaneous veno-arterial ECMO as treatment for cardiogenic shock in our Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and tried to define prognostic factors.