Neonatal acute liver failure with pulmonary yellow hyaline membrane and kernicterus

The Nature of the Neonatal Pulmonary Hyaline Membrane

Hyaline membranes are seen in the lungs of nearly one-third of prematurely born infants who die after birth at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. The nature of the membranes has been discussed often in the literature (Farber and Wilson, 1932; Tregillus, 1951; Claireaux, 1953; Bruns and Shields, 1954; Gilmer and Hand, 1955; Lendrum, 1955; Lynch and Mellor, 1955; Stevenson and Laufe, 1955; Gi...

Pulmonary Ultrastructure in Neonatal Hyaline

of lungs obtained at necropsy from 44 children at or above the 50th centile dying from non-pulmonary causes were described. In the present paper some results from the analysis of 92 further pressure-volume curves are described. These were compared with the theoretically normal values according to total body length, by dividing the observed value by the theoretically normal one. This was done fo...

Pulmonary structural changes in neonatal hyaline membrane disease treated with high pressure artificial respiration.

Neonatal acute liver failure: a diagnosis challenge.

Neonatal acute liver failure is a rare, very severe disease with a high rate of mortality. It is clinically and etiologically different from acute liver failure seen in older children and adults. Coagulopathy with an international normalized ratio ≥ 3 is the critical parameter that defines it. The most common causes are fetal alloimmune hepatitis, previously called neonatal hemochromatosis, vir...

Pulmonary function in infants with neonatal chronic lung disease with or without hyaline membrane disease at birth.

We studied whether neonatal chronic lung disease (NCLD), hyaline membrane disease (HMD) and differences in ventilatory support affected pulmonary function during the first year of life, in 65 infants born prematurely. The relationship between body weight and oxygen consumption (V'O2) was also analysed. The study comprised 14 infants without cardiorespiratory disease, 19 infants with HMD but wit...