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Timeline of clinical course and laboratory tests performed. Blood tests performed are given with normal ranges. Due to hemolysis, several blood tests could not be performed. Blood gases derive from arterial blood. *NMH: not measurable, sample hemolytic.
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Blood tests showed a mild normochromic, normocytic anemia (hemoglobin 13.0 g/dL), bilirubin of 8.45 mg/dL, severe thrombocytopenia of 20 x 109/L, acute renal failure with creatinine level of 4.9 mg/dL, as well as leukocytosis of 31 x 109/L, elevated C-reactive protein and procalcitonin levels (Fig. 1). Our ECMO team visited the patient in the primary hospital and implanted a venovenous ECMO and transferred the patient to our intensive care unit (Fig. 1). In total, 10 packed red blood cells and 12 g fibrinogen were transfused within 12 h stabilizing the hemoglobin concentration at 7.0 g/dL (Fig. 1).