TABLE 2.
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.