Veno-venous ECMO as a safe bridge to recovery in a patient with severe peripartum cardiomyopathy - learning from errors.

We report on a young multiparous woman with cardiogenic shock caused by severe PPCM who was successfully, but atypically, supported with veno-venous ECMO as a bridge to recovery immediately after the birth of her third child. PMID: 27881700 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27881700?dopt=Abstract

Source: Perfusion - November 22, 2016 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Ull C, Schildhauer TA, Strauch JT, Mügge A, Swol J Tags: Perfusion Source Type: research