Radiologic controls were age-matched infants without known pulmonary disease. Pathologic controls ... the infants had pulmonary hyaline membranes. Infants with a greater weight at birth and ...

To the Editor: After having read the article "Prognosis in Hyaline-Membrane Disease" by Dr. Mildred Stahlman and her associates in the February 9 issue of the Journal. I found it interesting to ...

This was previously known as hyaline membrane disease (HMD ... and getting rid of carbon dioxide. On a chest X-ray, the lungs of a baby with RDS look like ground glass. RDS is common in premature ...

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 the only man ...

The hyaline membrane disease that kills at least 25,000 infants every year (among them: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy) and the heart attacks that are fatal to 500,000 adult Americans seem poles apart as ...

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 ...

Infants with neonatal RDS have difficulty breathing normally. Neonatal RDS is also known as hyaline membrane disease and infant respiratory distress syndrome. When an infant is born with RDS and ...

In particular, scientists discovered hyaline membrane disease resulted from a deficiency of surfactant, a substance that lines the air sacs in the lungs. Surfactant replacement shortened the ...

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.