Abstract
We report an 18-year-old ice skater with acute lymphoblast leukemia. She developed Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia, severe sepsis, septic shock, and ARDS following chemotherapy-induced severe bone marrow failure. She was successfully treated with extraordinary life support measures, which included extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, double lumen lung ventilation for management of hemoptysis, and lung assist membrane ventilation. After 57 days of ICU treatment and a year of rehabilitation, the patient has fully regained her functional status, is now finishing high school, and is ice skating again.
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- interventional lung assist membrane ventilator
- acute lymphoblast leukemia
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Gorjup Vojka MD PhD, Center for Intensive Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Zaloska 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: vojka.gorjup{at}gmail.com.
The authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest.
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