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Heart, lung & circulation · Dec 2012
Case ReportsExtracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in a situation of diagnostic dilemma.
- Maqsood M Elahi, Chew Houng, Toby Trahair, Hari Ravindranathan, and Peter W Grant.
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Sydney Children's Hospital, High Street, Randwick, NSW, Australia. manzoor_elahi@hotmail.com
- Heart Lung Circ. 2012 Dec 1; 21 (12): 821-3.
AbstractSevere acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in children carries a high morbidity and mortality. High frequency ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) are used as rescue modes of support in difficult situations. Malignancy may be considered to be a relative contraindication to ECMO support. We report a case where the decision was made to support the patient with ECMO for fulminant Epstein-Barr (EBV) infection while investigations were being done to exclude an underlying malignancy.Copyright © 2012 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). All rights reserved.
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