Seventy infants who had clinical hyaline-membrane disease as neonates were followed from two to five years with repeated physical examinations and x-ray films of the chest. Nineteen of them had such ...
THE absence of fibrinolytic enzyme activity in the A lungs of newborn infants succumbing to hyaline-membrane disease was recently reported. 1 This enzyme abnormality was manifested by an inability of ...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) can evolve in prematurely born infants who require mechanical ventilation because of hyaline membrane disease (HMD). The development of BPD can be divided in an acute, ...