Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in a 30-Year-Old Woman in the 36th Week of Pregnancy Treated with Postpartum Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Watatu Takayama; Akira Endo; Junichiro Yoshii; Hirokuni Arai; Keiji Oi; Eiki Nagaoka; Satoshi Toyama; Hiroto Yamamoto; Tokujiro Uchida; Yasuhiro Otomo

doi:10.12659/AJCR.927521

28 October 2020: Articles

Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in a 30-Year-Old Woman in the 36 Week of Pregnancy Treated with Postpartum Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Unusual clinical course, Unusual or unexpected effect of treatment, Educational Purpose (only if useful for a systematic review or synthesis)

Wataru Takayama ^A* , Akira Endo ^A , Junichiro Yoshii ^B , Hirokuni Arai ^D , Keiji Oi ^C , Eiki Nagaoka ^C , Satoshi Toyama ^C , Hiroto Yamamoto ^C , Tokujiro Uchida ^D , Yasuhiro Otomo ^C

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.927521

Am J Case Rep 2020; 21:e927521

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Figure 2. Time course of the patient in terms of lung conditions and therapeutic interventions. VV-ECMO – veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; IVIG – high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. Lung compliance is defined as the change in lung volume for a unit change in trans-alveolar pressure (ml/cmH2O).

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Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in a 30-Year-Old Woman in the 36 Week of Pregnancy Treated with Postpartum Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

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