| Literature DB >> 17960144 |
K Olmsted1, O Oluola, A Parthiban, T Raghuveer.
Abstract
Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) causes significant hypoxia in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. We report an ELBW infant with RDS and pulmonary hypertension whose hypoxia did not respond to inhaled nitric oxide but improved with inhaled prostacyclin. We propose that inhaled prostacyclin alleviated the hypoxia by stimulating surfactant secretion.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17960144 DOI： 10.1038/sj.jp.7211811
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Perinatol ISSN： 0743-8346 Impact factor: 2.521