Pathophysiology and treatment of surfactant protein-B deficiency.

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Surfactant protein B (SP-B) deficiency is an inherited disease of full-term newborn infants which leads to lethal respiratory failure within the first year of life. Genetic analysis of affected infants has permitted identification of a mutation in the SP-B gene found in several unrelated kindreds which disrupts pulmonary surfactant composition and function. Lung transplantation has resulted in reconstitution of...

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