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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013 Mar;14(3):10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182712d62. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3182712d62

TABLE 2.

Patient Diagnosis, Age, ECMO Type, ECMO Duration, and Neurologic Injury Characteristics

Patient Primary Diagnosis Age ECMO
Type
ECMO
Duration (d)
Clinically Evident Neurologic Injury
1 Status asthmaticus 18 mo VV neck 3 No

2 Myocarditis 12 mo VA neck 5 No

3 Heterotaxy, junctional
ectopic tachycardia
2 mo VA chest 2 No

4 Hypoplastic left heart 7 mo VA chest 7 Right anterior temporal hemorrhage, bilateral
punctuate hemorrhages near caudate, small
left frontal SDH noted on ECMO day 7

5 Congenital diaphragmatic
hernia
2 d VA neck 5 No

6 Pulmonary hypertension 2 mo VV neck 2 No

7 Pneumonia 17 yr VV neck 22 No

8 Sepsis 4 wk VA neck 3 No

9 Transposition of the great
arteries
2 mo VA chest 8 Right frontal SDH 13 mm thick, small left frontal
SDH, diffuse edema noted on ECMO day 8

10 Pulmonary hemorrhage 16 yr VA neck 2 No

11 Tetrology of fallot 6 mo VA neck 7 Right frontal SDH 23 mm thick, left frontal SDH
21 mm thick, diffuse edema noted on ECMO day 7

12 Coarctation of aorta 2 mo VA chest 2 No

13 Atrioventricular canal 6 wk VA neck 10 Diffuse hypoxic ischemic injury noted on ECMO
day 10

14 Congenital diaphragmatic
hernia
2 d VA neck 4 No

15 Atrioventricular canal 15 mo VA chest 6 No

16 Cystic fibrosis 17 yr VV neck 9 No
17 Cardiomyopathy 3 mo VA neck 11 No

18 Pneumonia 18 yr VV neck 3 Bilateral frontal SDH, bilateral intraparenchymal
hemorrhages noted on ECMO day 3

ECMO = extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; VV = venovenous; VA = venoarterial; SDH = subdural hemorrhage.