Persistent Respiratory Distress in the Term Neonate: Genetic Surfactant Deficiency Diseases

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Respiratory distress is one of the most common clinical presentations in newborns requiring admission to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Many of these infants develop respiratory distress secondary to surfactant deficiency, which causes an interstitial lung disease that can occur in both preterm and term infants. Pulmonary surfactant is a protein and lipid mixture made by type II alveolar cells, which...

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