Ex utero intrapartum treatment-to-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation followed by cardiac operation for truncus arteriosus communis

Abstract

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation has been recently indicated as an ex utero intrapartum treatment procedure for placental support in patients with a large thoracic mass. In our case, a foetus with truncus arteriosus communis and hydrops with ventricular failure due to severe truncal valve stenosis was delivered under ex utero intrapartum treatment-to-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at 34 weeks of gestation. The neonate underwent truncal valve plasty. He could be weaned off extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, but he died because of the infection on postnatal Day 24.