During the new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there has been controversy over whether emergency surgical management should be performed or not in the patients with COVID-19. Stanford type A aortic dissection is a very urgent life-threatening disease, and guidelines recommend surgical treatment for patients with type A aortic dissection in the first instance. However, intraoperative extracorporeal circulation can be fatal to patients recovering from COVID-19. During the pandemic, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has played an important role in supporting COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure. This article reports a successful V-V ECMO treatment for a Stanford type A aortic dissection patient, who suffered respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 after emergency surgery.
Citation: SHAO Hongan, YAO Yue, WANG Bo, WANG Lu, HU Jing, LI Qingguo. Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for a Stanford type A aortic dissection patient combined with postoperative respiratory failure and COVID-19: A case report. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023, 30(7): 967-969. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202302074 Copy
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