Surgical therapy for complications of pneumonia on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation can improve the ability to wean patients from support
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) is used in both children and adults to provide sufficient gas exchange until pulmonary parenchymal complications of pneumonia can heal (1). The natural history of severe pneumonia can result in formation of empyema and abscess, as well as lung necrosis and cystic disease that can compress the normal parenchyma. In
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