Urgent Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Complicated by Systemic Inflammatory Response from Fulminant Herpes Zoster

Zaki Haidari1, Wilko Weißenberger1, Bartosz Tyczynski2

  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center, 45122 Essen, Germany.

Blood purification by hemoadsorption therapy seems to improve outcomes in selected patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Here, we report the successful application of hemoadsorption in the severe systemic inflammatory response during coronary artery bypass surgery in a patient with reactivated herpes zoster.