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- IRDS affects premature infants due to underdeveloped lungs and low surfactant production, requiring intensive care treatments like oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation.
- Mechanical ventilation, while necessary, can cause complications like pulmonary barotrauma, leading to serious respiratory issues like severe pulmonary interstitial emphysema.
- In a specific case, lung transplantation was performed as the only effective treatment after previous methods failed.
Article Abstract
Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) develops among premature infants due to structural immaturity of the lungs and insufficient production of pulmonary surfactant. Nowadays, treatment takes place under conditions of intensive care and includes oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, exogenous supplementation of pulmonary surfactant and antenatal corticosteroid therapy. The treatment of IRDS, especially mechanical ventilation, may lead to complications which can contribute to developing a severe dysfunction of the respiratory system. Unavailability of pharmacological treatment of IRDS and development of pulmonary barotrauma due to mechanical ventilation in our patient led to the forming of severe pulmonary interstitial emphysema. In this case report, lung transplantation was performed as an only successful therapeutic option.
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