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Prolonged survival in hereditary surfactant protein B (SP-B) deficiency associated with a novel splicing mutation.
Pediatric research - 1 Sept 2000
Dunbar A E, Wert S E, Ikegami M, Whitsett J A, Hamvas A, White F V, Piedboeuf B, Jobin C, Guttentag S, Nogee L M
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary surfactant protein B (SP-B) deficiency has been lethal in the first year of life without lung transplantation. We tested the hypothesis that SP-B gene mutations may result in milder phenotypes by investigating the mechanisms for lung disease in two children with less severe symptoms than have been previously observed in SP-B deficiency. Immunostaining patterns for pulmonary surfactant proteins were...
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