Healthy lungs are crucial for overall health. Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, or neonatal RDS, may occur if the lungs aren’t fully developed. It typically occurs in premature babies.

Additionally, the chest X-ray showed a ... at 11 days of age, this newborn had two episodes of hyperthermia (i.e., abnormally high body temperature) and mild respiratory distress.

What Is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome? Acute respiratory distress ... They may also look for: Imaging tests. A chest X-ray is crucial and probably the first test your doctor will order.

The most common lung problem in a premature baby is respiratory distress syndrome (RDS ... and getting rid of carbon dioxide. On a chest X-ray, the lungs of a baby with RDS look like ground ...

Inhaled nitric oxide improves gas exchange, decreases pulmonary vascular lability, and reduces pulmonary inflammation. We hypothesized that the use of inhaled nitric oxide would decrease the ...

Fifty years ago, Ashbaugh and colleagues described 12 patients with tachypnea, refractory hypoxemia, and diffuse opacities on chest ... for the respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn.