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New-Onset Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with a Rhinovirus Infection
Nishit Patel1 and Tiong G The
11St Peter’s University Hospital, 254 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Abstract
A 3.5-week-old male neonate who developed an upper and lower respiratory tract rhinovirus infection that was temporally associated with the development of severe pulmonary hypertension is described. Rhinovirus has not previously been associated with pulmonary hypertension. This child developed severe pulmonary hypertension with right ventricular failure, requiring mechanical ventilation, nitric oxide inhalation and, eventually, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
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