Use of extra corporeal membrane oxygenation in the management of sepsis secondary to an infected right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery Contegra conduit in an adult patient.
This is the first report in the cardiac surgical literature in a grown-up congenital heart male patient with endocarditis of the Contegra conduit who developed septic shock with cardio-respiratory failure and required treatment with extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in order to stabilize his clinical condition preoperatively.
Vohra
Hunaid A
HA
Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK.
Jones
Ceri
C
Viola
Nicola
N
Haw
Marcus P
MP
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001705:Bioprosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis / Q000009:adverse effects*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000295:instrumentation; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents