Respiratory morbidity in near term (≥ 34 and< 37 weeks) infants delivered spontaneously or
by elective cesarean section (ECS) has been well documented in the literature, and …

This article reviews the process of alveolar fluid clearance at birth and its relevance to
successful transition from placental to pulmonary gas exchange. Although mechanical …

One of the biggest challenges a newborn faces after birth is the task of making a smooth
transition to air breathing. This task is complicated by the fact that fetal lungs are full of fluid …

Physiologic events in the last few weeks of pregnancy coupled with the onset of
spontaneous labor are accompanied by changes in the hormonal milieu of the fetus and its …

PHYSIOLOGISTS HAVE KNOWN for over a century that the lungs are filled with liquid during
fetal life (53), but the origin of this liquid was uncertain until 1948 when Jost and Policard …

At birth, the distal lung epithelium undergoes a profound phenotypic switch from secretion to
absorption in the course of adaptation to air breathing. In this review, we describe the …

During fetal development, the internal volume of the lungs and thoracic cage is maintained
by the secretion of liquid into the pulmonary lumen. The liquid serves as a space filler or …

Objective To determine whether there is an increased incidence of persistent pulmonary
hypertension in neonates delivered by cesarean, with or without labor, compared with those …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to compare the frequency of respiratory morbidity
(RDS‐Type I, RDS‐Type II and PFC) in term neonates relative to three different delivery …

The newborn's transition from fetal to neonatal life includes aeration of the lungs,
establishment of pulmonary gas exchange and changing the fetal circulation into the adult …