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Revista médica de Chile · May 2002
Case Reports[Treatment of severe respiratory failure with cardiopulmonary extracorporeal assistance. A clinical case].
- Luis Castillo, Soledad Velasco, Manuel José Irarrázabal, Bernardita Garayar, Glenn Hernández, Samuel Córdova, Carlos Romero, and Guillermo Bugedo.
- Programa de Medicina Intensiva, Departamento de Anestesiología, Departamento de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Hospital Clínico Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. castillo@med.puc.cl
- Rev Med Chil. 2002 May 1;130(5):545-50.
AbstractCardiopulmonary extracorporeal assistance is a high complexity procedure for patients with acute respiratory failure, who have failed conventional ventilatory support. A 30 years old female patient with bacterial endocarditis and congestive cardiac failure subjected to cardiac surgery presented severe hypoxemia, right heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, and failed conventional treatment. Cardiopulmonary support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) reverted the pathophysiologic alterations allowing a successful recovery.
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