Listeria monocytogenes and Severe Newborn Respiratory Failure Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Life-Threatening Human Metapneumovirus Pneumonia Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Preterm Infant

“…ECMO support has been used in the treatment of life-threatening infections caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, mycobacteria, and atypical organisms. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The success of this respiratory support mode has been variable, ranging from no effect to Phylogenetic tree of the hMPV isolates. Nucleotide sequences were determined for nucleotides 688 to 1032 of the F gene.…”

Neonatal listeriosis with severe respiratory failure responding to nitric oxide inhalation

“…Ahlfors et al 4 have reported that the administration of torazoline was effective for this condition. Hirschl et al 10 also described that of the nine patients in their report who had neonatal listeriosis complicated by severe respiratory failure and who were subjected to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), six survived. However, torazoline can induce systemic hypotension as an adverse effect, resulting in deterioration of oxygenation.…”

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for newborns with gastric rupture

“…Over the past 2 decades, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) [3] has occupied a de®nitive position in the ®eld of neonatal intensive care, and has been recognized to be bene®cial in overcoming persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, which is frequently associated with meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) or congenital diaphragmatic hernia. ECMO has recently been judged to be indicated for patients with sepsis and to be bene®cial in managing cardiopulmonary distress (CPD) due to primary sepsis in neonates [6,7,9,13,14]. Indeed, according to recent data of the ECMO Registry in the United States [16], patients with sepsis accounted for 15.5% of total neonatal cases.…”