Follow-up strategy with long-term veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support for complicated severe acute respiratory distress related to COVID-19 and recovery of the lungs

Kaan Kırali

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.21208

Kaan Kırali¹, Atakan Erkılınç², Ahmet Erdal Taşçı³, Mustafa Mert Özgür¹, Gonca Gecmen⁴, Ece Altınay², Halide Oğuş², Mustafa Vayvada³

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu High Specialization Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
²Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Kartal Koşuyolu High Specialization Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
³Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kartal Koşuyolu High Specialization Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
⁴Department of Pathology, Kartal Lütfi Kırdar City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2021.21208

Novel coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected all over the world, leading to viral pneumonia-complicating severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and death. Although there is no proven definitive treatment yet, physicians use some assistive methods based on the previous epidemic viral acute respiratory distress syndrome experiences. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is one of them. In this report, we present one of the longest survived extracorporeal membrane oxygenation case (71 days) with COVID-19 infection and the pathology of the infected lung, with our veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation strategy.

Keywords : Acute respiratory distress syndrome, COVID-19, COVID-19 pathology. extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, veno-venous

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