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Severe acute extrinsic airway compression by mediastinal tumor successfully managed with extracorporeal membrane
A S Stewart1, W R Smythe, S Aukburg
1Department of Surgery, The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA.
ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992)
|June 9, 1998
Abstract:
The successful use of femoral venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to support an adult patient with extrinsic airway compression secondary to a large mediastinal tumor is presented. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was continued until a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy allowed sufficient tumor shrinkage to permit decannulation. This method should be considered and available before manipulation of the airway in similar patients.