Lung function in newborn infants with tachypnea of unknown cause

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT. Twenty-one infants with tachypnea (f > 60/min) lasting more than 2 h and diagnosed as mild respiratory disease or pulmonary maladaptation according to previously

presented criteria were studied during the course of the disease and after clinical recovery. Lung physiology (total and alveolar ventilation, efficiency and distribution of ventilation,

functional residual capacity, and lung mechanics) was studied in combination with clinical data. The pathophysiological findings were characterized by increased total ventilation but normal

alveolar ventilation, reduced efficiency of ventilation but more even distribution of ventilation (nitrogen elimination pattern) during disease than after clinical recovery, hyperinflation,

reduced dynamic lung compliance but unaffected specific lung conductance. Infants with low gestational ages were most severely affected and had longer duration of disease than full-term

infants. Our findings suggest that this condition is caused by small airway disease. Disturbances in normal pulmonary adaptation with abnormal retention of lung fluid is the most probable

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Gothenburg University and Research Laboratory of Medical Electronics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden Kenneth Sandberg, Bengt-Arne Sjöqvist, Ola Hjalmarson & Torsten

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Lung Function in Newborn Infants with Tachypnea of Unknown Cause. _Pediatr Res_ 22, 581–586 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198711000-00020 Download citation * Received: 16 January

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