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Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Neonatology · Respiratory
Severe
Severity
Common among premature infants — affects a significant proportion of babies born before 34 weeks gestation
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Neonatology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Results from insufficient production of surfactant by the developing lungs
- 2a substance normally produced in adequate amounts only later in gestation
- 3making premature infants
- 4particularly those born before 34 weeks
- 5most susceptible. Other risk factors include maternal diabetes
- 6cesarean delivery without labor
- 7multiple births
- 8and a family history of the condition. The lack of surfactant causes the air sacs to collapse with each breath
- 9dramatically increasing the effort required for the infant to breathe.
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