Medicine:Pulmonary hyperplasia

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Pulmonary hyperplasia
SpecialtyNeonatology

Pulmonary hyperplasia is a serious pathological event which occurs in neonatal medicine. It leads to pulmonary hypertension and acute respiratory distress syndrome.[1] Histologically the lungs classically exhibit "synchronous" hypermaturity".[2] It is thought that this condition is a lot less rare than previously thought due to under recognition.[citation needed]

References

  1. Graf, K. (2008). "Pulmonary hyperplasia and the two sides of PKC". Cardiovascular Research 78 (3): 409–410. doi:10.1093/cvr/cvn089. PMID 18397964. 
  2. Wright JR Jr, Thompson DL, McBride JA et al. Asynchronous pulmonary hyperplasia associated with tracheal atresia: pathologic and prenatal sonographic findings. Pediatr Pathol Lab Med. 1995 Jan-Feb;15(1):81-97.

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