Initiation of ECMO for ventilator-dependent respiratory failure in an infant with Pompe's.

Pediatr Surg Int

General Surgery Department, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, 300 E Hospital Road, Ft Gordon, Augusta, GA, 30905, USA,

Published: May 2014

We present a 7-month-old male with Pompe's disease with respiratory failure requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation that received enzyme replacement therapy. There are no published cases of the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in a patient with Pompe's disease, or the use of enzyme replacement therapy in the setting of acute respiratory failure.

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