In vivo effect of pneumonia on surfactant disaturated-phosphatidylcholine kinetics in newborn infants.

Bacterial pneumonia in newborns often leads to surfactant deficiency or dysfunction, as surfactant is inactivated or its production/turnover impaired. No data are available in vivo in humans on the mechanism of surfactant depletion in neonatal pneumonia. We studied the kinetics of surfactant's...

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Main Authors: Maddalena Facco, Matteo Nespeca, Manuela Simonato, Ilena Isak, Giovanna Verlato, Gianluca Ciambra, Chiara Giorgetti, Virgilio P Carnielli, Paola E Cogo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4281094?pdf=render