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FAVOURABLE CLINICAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIOGENIC SHOCK<br />

DUE TO FULMINANT MYOCARDITIS SUPPORTED BY PERCUTANEOUS<br />

EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION<br />

YASUHIDE ASAUMI<br />

EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL (2005) 26, 2185–2192<br />

Figure 2:<br />

Acute changes in left ventricular function<br />

before and immediately<br />

after the support and at weaning from<br />

ECMO in patients with fulminant<br />

myocarditis (F group). (A) Fractional<br />

shortening (B) end-systolic dimentions.<br />

Open circles indicate patients who<br />

were weaned from ECMO and closed<br />

diamonds indicate F patients who were<br />

not weaned from ECMO and died.

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