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since in case of acute cardiogenic shock the surgery should be performed very early to increase the
perioperative survival. Rescue tool as ECMO is an emerged therapy to stabile patients and even allowing
the stabilization in referring hospital.

DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Made substantial contributions to conception and design of the study and performed literature search and
interpretation: Formica F, Mariani S, D’Alessandro S

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Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

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