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SUBMITTER: Kim BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4900866 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Korean journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 20160605 3
A 4-month-old boy diagnosed with acute myocarditis was treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Follow-up echocardiography eight hours after ECMO revealed intracardiac thrombosis involving all four heart chambers. Because of the high risk of systemic embolization due to a pedunculated thrombus of the aortic valve, we performed an emergency thrombectomy. After the operation, the patient had a minor neurologic sequela of left upper arm hypertonia, which had almost disappeared at th ...[more]