Acute Pathophysiological Effects of Intratracheal Instillation of Budesonide and Exogenous Surfactant in a Neonatal Surfactant-depleted Piglet Model

• Main Authors: Chia-Feng Yang (Author), Mei-Jy Jeng (Author), Wen-Jue Soong (Author), Yu-Sheng Lee (Author), Pen-Chen Tsao (Author), Ren-Bin Tang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic lung disease continues to be a major complication in premature infants with severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). This is despite having advanced ventilatory care, prenatal corticosteroids, and postnatal surfactant therapies. The combined use of intratracheal corticosteroids and surfac...