Russia’s first successful experience with extended extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in puerperal women with Takotsubo syndrome

Shelukhin D.A., Pavlov A.I, Kuznetsov S.V.

A.M. Nikiforov All-Russian Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Moscow, Russia
To present a clinical case of life-threatening cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo syndrome) in a puerperal woman in the early postpartum period, which has required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation used in combination with intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation at the stage of hospital care and interhospital transportation.

Keywords

extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation
Takotsubo syndrome
cardiomyopathy
puerperal woman

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Received 12.03.2019

Accepted 19.04.2019

About the Authors

Shelukhin Daniil A., PhD; Principal Anesthesiologist/Resuscitator, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, A.M. Nikiforov All-Russian Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters. Address: 54, Optikovs St., Saint Petersburg, Russia. E-mail: shelldan@mail.ru
Pavlov Andrei I., Head, Emergency Department, A.M. Nikiforov All-Russian Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Moscow, Russia
Address: 54, Optikovs St., Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Kuznetsov Sergei Vladimirovich, Head, Department of Gynecology A.M. Nikiforov All-Russian Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine, Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Moscow, Russia.
Address: 54, Optikovs St., Saint Petersburg, Russia.

For citations: Shelukhin D.A., Pavlov A.I, Kuznetsov S.V. Russia’s first successful experience with extended extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in puerperal women with Takotsubo syndrome. Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya/Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2019; 7: 131-6 (in Russian).
http://dx.doi.org/10.18565/aig.2019.7.131-136

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