Are simultaneous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and therapeutic plasma exchange procedures tolerable in both pediatric and adult patients?
Despite the hypocalcemic and hypotensive reactions that occurred during simultaneous ECMO and TPE, apheresis treatment regimens were successfully completed in all patients. With clear communication between ECMO and apheresis teams, along with close patient and instrument monitoring, simultaneous ECMO and TPE is tolerable and can be performed in critically ill children and adults.
LVGLS is impaired in sarcoidosis patients, suggesting subclinical cardiac dysfunction despite the absence of conventional evidence of cardiac disease, and is independently associated with occurrence of cardiac events and/or development of CS.