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Use of extra corporeal membrane oxygenation in the management of sepsis secondary to an infected right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery Contegra conduit in an adult patient

Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, UK

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E-mail address: marcus.haw{at}suht.nhs.uk (M.P. Haw).

This is the first report in the cardiac surgical literature in a grown-up congenital heart male patient with endocarditis of the Contegra conduit who developed septic shock with cardio-respiratory failure and required treatment with extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in order to stabilize his clinical condition preoperatively.

Key Words: Congenital; Endocarditis; Contegra; Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation