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Case Reports
. 2017 Feb 4:20:133-136.
doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.01.015. eCollection 2017.

Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation as an indispensable tool for a successful treatment of a pregnant woman with H1N1 infection in Brazil

Rodrigo T Amancio  1 , Celina Machado Acra  2 , Vicente Cés de Souza Dantas  3
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Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation as an indispensable tool for a successful treatment of a pregnant woman with H1N1 infection in Brazil

Rodrigo T Amancio et al. Respir Med Case Rep. .
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A - Chest X-ray on admission day, before ICU admission. B - Chest X-ray 24 hours after hospital admission, under mechanical ventilation and veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (cannulation of right internal jugular vein).
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Chest computed tomography, performed when the patient had achieved clinical conditions to do the exam, ten days after hospital admission. The patient had significant improvement in lung function, without ECMO use, but still under mechanical ventilation. Chest computed tomography shows diffuse and bilateral interstitial infiltrates.
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