Kyriakos Anastasiadis
Polychronis Antonitsis
Helena Argiriadou

2013

From Science and Technology
to Clinical Practice

Minimal ExtraCorporeal Circulation (MECC) systems are used for more than one decade in clinical practice. However, most of the cardiac surgeons and perfusionists do not really know much about them. Despite the excellent clinical results from their use, which are widely dispersed into the literature, and the recent meta-analyses, which show prognostic superiority as well as reduced postoperative morbidity of MECC compared to conventional cardiopulmonary bypass, their penetration in contemporary practice remains low.