Fatal Covid-19 vasoplegic shock in a recipient few hours before double lung transplantation in high emergency

Olaf Mercier^{1

2

3}, Florent Laverdure⁴, Laura Filaire², Hervé Mal⁵, Vincent Bunel⁵, Delphine Deblauwe⁶, Lidwine Wemeau⁷, Gaëlle Dauriat², Elie Fadel^{1

2

3}, André Vincentelli⁸

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
² Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Pulmonary Hypertension National Referral Center, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
³ INSERM UMR_S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
⁵ Service de Pneumologie B et Transplantation Pulmonaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁶ Intensive Care Unit, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
⁷ Department of Respirology, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery, CHU Lille, Lille, France.

Case Reports

Olaf Mercier et al. Transpl Infect Dis. 2021 Feb.

. 2021 Feb;23(1):e13445.

doi: 10.1111/tid.13445. Epub 2020 Nov 4.

Olaf Mercier^{1

2

3}, Florent Laverdure⁴, Laura Filaire², Hervé Mal⁵, Vincent Bunel⁵, Delphine Deblauwe⁶, Lidwine Wemeau⁷, Gaëlle Dauriat², Elie Fadel^{1

2

3}, André Vincentelli⁸

¹ School of Medicine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
² Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Pulmonary Hypertension National Referral Center, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
³ INSERM UMR_S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
⁵ Service de Pneumologie B et Transplantation Pulmonaire, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
⁶ Intensive Care Unit, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
⁷ Department of Respirology, CHU Lille, Lille, France.
⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery, CHU Lille, Lille, France.

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