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Surfactant protein B deficiency: clinical, histological and molecular evaluation.
Journal of paediatrics and child health - 1 Apr 1999
Williams G D, Christodoulou J, Stack J, Symons P, Wert S E, Murrell M J, Nogee L M
Abstract excerpt
Congenital alveolar proteinosis due to surfactant protein B deficiency is an inherited disease which results in severe respiratory failure in term infants soon after birth. The pathophysiologic basis of this disease is now known to be an inability to synthesise adequate quantities of normally functioning surfactant protein B. We report a male infant with fatal respiratory failure of neonatal onset, and...
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