Predicting the risk of respiratory distress in newborns with congenital pulmonary malformations.

Objectives: Most children with prenatally diagnosed congenital pulmonary malformations (CPMs) are asymptomatic at birth. We aimed to develop a parsimonious prognostic model for predicting the risk of neonatal respiratory distress (NRD) in preterm and term infants with CPM, based on the prenatal attributes of the malformation.

Methods: MALFPULM is a prospective population-based nationally representative cohort including 436 pregnant women.