The Pulmonary Circulation in Neonatal Respiratory Failure
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Fetal and neonatal pulmonary circulation.
During fetal life, gas exchange is carried out in the placenta. The lung does not have a physiological role, apart from possible metabolic functions which include secretion of hormones, enzymatic conversion of inactive substances to functional hormones, and degradation of active materials to inactive metabolites. Blood flow through the lungs is quite low during fetal life; most of the systemic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinics in Perinatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0095-5108
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2012.06.006