title: Prolonged Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
abstract: A 30 year-old Hispanic man with no significant previous medical history presented with refractory hypoxemia after flu-like symptoms. Because of progressive hypoxemia despite appropriate ventilator strategies, venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) was initiated for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). His course was complicated at our hospital by subarachnoid hemorrhage, right ventricular failure, multiple pneumothoraces, and significant deconditioning. He was able to be weaned off VV-ECMO after 193 days and was ambulatory at discharge from the hospital.
authors.affiliation: From the *Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Division, and †Center for Advanced Heart Failure, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas.
authors.forename: Bindu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Akkanti
authors.forename: Rahat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Sriram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.forename: Brandon
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gentry
authors.forename: Alisha Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: Farshad
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authors.lastname: Raissi
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nascimbene
authors.forename: Indranee N
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authors.lastname: Rajapreyar
authors.forename: Igor D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Banjac
authors.forename: Kirti
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authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Janowiak
authors.forename: Manish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Jayeshkumar A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Pranav
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authors.lastname: Loyalka
authors.forename: Igor D
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authors.lastname: Gregoric
authors.forename: Biswajit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*