Severe Neonatal Interstitial Lung Disease Caused by a Rare Surfactant Protein C Mutation.

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Childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) is a collective term for a group of rare lung disorders of heterogeneous origin. Surfactant dysfunction disorders are a cause of chILD with onset during the neonatal period and infancy. Clinical signs of tachypnea and hypoxemia are nonspecific and usually caused by common conditions like lower respiratory tract infections. We report on a full-term male newborn who was...

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