Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for overwhelming Blastomyces dermatitidis pneumonia
Published in Critical Care
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for overwhelming Blastomyces dermatitidis pneumonia
Published in Critical Care
Severe aspiration pneumonia after surgery for reconstructed gastric tube cancer treated with extracorporeal life support...
Published in The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
A 68-year-old man who had received resection for thoracic esophageal cancer 8 years ago, was operated on for the cancer of the reconstructed gastric tube. On the day of the operation, he accidentally swallowed gastric juice due to an obstruction in the reconstructed gastric tube. He suffered from acute hypoxic respiratory failure which could not be...
Open and closed chest extrathoracic cannulation for cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal life support: methods, ind...
Published in Postgraduate medical journal
Extrathoracic cannulation to establish cardiopulmonary bypass has been widely applied in recent years and includes: (a) repeat surgery, (b) minimally invasive surgery, and (c) cases with diseased vessels such as porcelain, aneurysmal, and dissecting aorta. In addition, the success and relative ease of peripheral cannulation, among other technologic...
Efficacy of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a congenital heart surgery program
Published in Clinical Research in Cardiology
BackgroundTo report our experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in a congenital heart surgery program.MethodsSince 12/1996, 24 patients (8 newborns, 9 infants, 3 children, 4 adolescents/ adults 17–23 years), mean age 4.0±7.4 years (2 days–23 years), body weight 2.7–87 kg had ECMO as circulatory support. Indication was failure to ...
Outcomes using extracorporeal life support for adult respiratory failure due to status asthmaticus.
Published in ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992)
Our objective was to describe the outcomes for extracorporeal life support (ECLS) use in adult respiratory failure because of status asthmaticus and to determine whether ECLS use in status asthmaticus is associated with greater survival than other indications for ECLS. This retrospective cohort study used the multicenter, International ECLS Organiz...
Management of perioperative low cardiac output state without extracorporeal life support: What is feasible?
Published in Annals of pediatric cardiology
A transient and reversible reduction in cardiac output-low cardiac output state (LCOS) often occurs following surgery for congenital heart disease. Inappropriately managed LCOS is a risk factor for increased morbidity and death. LCOS may occasionally be progressive and refractory needing a period of "myocardial rest" with extracorporeal life suppor...
Translational research in pediatric extracorporeal life support systems and cardiopulmonary bypass procedures: 2011 upda...
...Published in World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery
Over the past 6 years at Penn State Hershey, we have established the pediatric cardiovascular research center with a multidisciplinary research team with the goal to improve the outcomes for children undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and extracorporeal life support (ECLS). Due to the variety of commercially available pedi...
Pumpless arteriovenous carbon dioxide removal: A novel simplified strategy for severe asthma in children.
Status asthmaticus unresponsive to pharmacotherapy is conventionally managed with mechanical ventilation, which has its inherent challenges due to barotrauma, dynamic hyperinflation and autopositive end-expiratory pressure (auto-PEEP). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has been used as a last resort in respiratory failure due to refractory asthma...
Successful Extracorporeal Life Support for Life-threatening Hypercapnia with Bronchiolitis Obliterans after Allogeneic H...
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Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is a disease with a poor prognosis, and a key factor that limits long-term survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We here report a case of a 31-year woman with acute lymphatic leukemia, which was treated by chemotherapy and HSCT, and consequently developed BO 2 years after HSCT. A non...
