Acute respiratory distress syndrome following coronary artery bypass grafting successfully treated with venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

Introduction. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is one of the most serious complications during postoperative period in cardiac surgery. Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) has proven to be a valuable therapy ARDS when standard insufficient. Our aim present case severe which was succesfully treated by VV-ECMO. Case outline. A 54-year-old male patient urgently admitted our hospital due anterior wall myocardal infarction. Urgent coronarography performed, found three-vessel coronary disease. Triple artery bypass grafting (CABG) performed. After surgery, prolonged insufficiency, diagnosed with and VV-ECMO placed. Nine days later, normal values gase exchange were achieved weaned from Conclusion. We showed that conventional for not effective, use ECMO should considered.