Short veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation assisted segmentectomy for second primary lung tumor in a patient with insufficient respiratory function for one lung ventilation

Short veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation assisted segmentectomy for second primary lung tumor in a patient with insufficient respiratory function for one lung ventilation

Advances in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) have allowed safe performance of complex thoracic surgical procedures that were impossible before. Application of ECMO in general thoracic surgery is extremely rare, but allows life-saving procedures in patients in whom one-lung ventilation cann...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Grapatsas, Severin Schmid, Benedikt Haager, Torsten Loop, Bernward Passlick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007118301369

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