Seventy infants who had clinical hyaline-membrane disease as neonates were followed from two to five years with repeated physical examinations and x-ray films of the chest. Nineteen of them had ...

12 In earlier studies, a lack of plasminogen-activator activity was demonstrated in the lungs of infants succumbing to hyaline-membrane disease. The absence of this enzyme activity appears to ...

Extra Oxygen. Because the membrane looks glassy, this condition is called hyaline (from the Greek for glassy) membrane disease. But the pathologist who does a post-mortem examination on a baby is ...

Hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies and kills an estimated 50,000 in the U.S. every year, was little known to laymen until it claimed its most prominent victim ...

Extract: Plasminogen-activator activity was measured in lungs from 7 newborn premature infants examined at autopsy (control lungs) and 11 infants dying of hyaline membrane disease (hyaline ...

Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas. Though the baby was a healthy weight, he developed what was known then as hyaline membrane disease, a condition that killed about 25,000 children a year.

The term hyaline refers to a glassy membrane that can form in the air sacs of premature infants, impeding their ability to extract oxygen from inhaled air. At the time, medicine had little to ...

Her primary focus was on hyaline membrane disease, sometimes called respiratory distress syndrome, in which alveoli — tiny air sacs in the lungs — do not properly inflate. The condition almost ...