Fig. 2

Chest X-Rays performed: (a) after VV-ECMO insertion: patchy airspace of opacification bilaterally. Features in keeping with ARDS; (b) 6 days after VV-ECMO insertion, immediately before weaning: significant improvement in the bilateral perihilar pulmonary infiltrates; (c) at three-months follow up: heart size normal, lungs and pleural spaces clear