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PEDIATRIC ANNALS
Volume 48, Issue 4, Pages E175-E181Publisher
SLACK INC
DOI: 10.3928/19382359-20190328-01
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- National Institutes of Health [U54HL096458]
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Respiratory distress occurs in 5% to 7% of live births at term gestation. Most cases are mild and transient and can be attributed to transient tachypnea of the newborn or wet lung. Severe respiratory distress is often due to nonpulmonary causes such as sepsis or congenital heart disease. Occasionally, term neonatal respiratory distress is associated with an inherited primary lung disease such as primary ciliary dyskinesia or surfactant metabolism defects. These lung diseases have characteristic presentations in the neonatal period and are important to recognize, as they necessitate different management approaches and have lifelong implications. Suspicion for these diseases should prompt referral to a pediatric pulmonologist.
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