Shingo Kazama, Hiroaki Hiraiwa, Yuki Kimura, Reina Ozaki, Naoki Shibata, Yoshihito Arao, Hideo Oishi, Hiroo Kato, Tasuku Kuwayama, Shogo Yamaguchi, Toru Kondo, Kenji Furusawa, Ryota Morimoto, Takahiro Okumura, Yasuko K Bando, Takahiko Sato, Kazuyuki Shimada, Hitoshi Kiyoi, Genki Nakamura, Yuma Yasuda, Daisuke Kasugai, Hiroaki Ogawa, Michiko Higashi, Takanori Yamamoto, Naruhiro Jingushi, Masayuki Ozaki, Atsushi Numaguchi, Yukari Goto, Naoyuki Matsuda, Toyoaki Murohara
A 37-year-old man diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma two weeks previously, visited our emergency department with sudden dyspnea. He had a severe respiratory failure with saturated percutaneous oxygen at 80% (room air). Chest radiography showed a large amount of left pleural effusion. After 1000 mL of the effusion was urgently drained, reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) occurred. Despite ventilator management, oxygenation did not improve and venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) was initiated in the intensive care unit...
January 2021: Journal of Cardiology Cases