Successful ECMO support for COVID-19-induced severe ARDS in patient after LVAD implantation.

Ventricular assist devices are increasingly being used as a bridge to transplant in end stage heart failure patients. The Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic had affected millions of people across the world, some of them with rapid progression to profound hypoxemia and development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Extracorporeal life support has been widely used in most severe respiratory failure cases, mostly as a veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).