Early rehabilitation after lung transplantation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) of COVID-19 patient: a case report.

ABSTRACT: Even when severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2-related coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is treated with first-line drugs, it progresses and leads to irreversible loss of lung function in some critically ill patients, and lung transplantation is an effective treatment for end-stage chronic pulmonary disease. This case report mainly describes the rehabilitation of a 66-year-old female patient with severe COVID-19 after bilateral lung transplantation. The old patient had a body mass index of 31.2 kg/m². She underwent bilateral lung transplantation due to severe and irreversible injury of both lungs. Long-term mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment and preoperative and postoperative high-dose corticosteroid therapy and due to th

SUBMITTER: Mao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8039682 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature