- 著者
- Hitoshi KANO Masayoshi TAKIGAMI Toshihisa MATSUI Keisuke BANDO Akio ENDO Masaki NAGAMA
- 出版者
- The Japan Neurosurgical Society
- 雑誌
- NMC Case Report Journal (ISSN:21884226)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.8, no.1, pp.393-398, 2021 (Released:2021-07-09)
- 参考文献数
- 38
In recent years, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) has been reported to be an effective alternative to conventional CPR for treating patients with reversible causes of cardiac arrest. Nevertheless, the definite indication for ECPR and also surgical interventions during ECPR treatment have not been established, especially in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) caused by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We treated a comatose 50-year-old woman with refractory cardiac arrest due to aneurysmal SAH-induced takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM). The initial cardiac rhythm was ventricular fibrillation. This is the first case report on coil embolization being successfully performed on a patient undergoing ECPR and therapeutic hypothermia (TH) while the patient was still in cardiac arrest, which resulted in complete social rehabilitation. Moreover, the success of this treatment suggests that ECPR and endovascular therapy should be considered for highly selected patients when cardiopulmonary and neurological functions are potentially reversible even in the setting of SAH.