Clinical Study
Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of Non Cardiac Cause in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Table 2
Causes of PPHN ().
| Aspiration of bloody amniotic fluid, (%) | 1 (1.2) | Aspiration of blood from upper airways | 1 (1.2) | (traumatic intubation), (%) | Meconium aspiration syndrome, (%) | 10 (12.8) (2†) | Congenital pneumonia and sepsis, (%) | 19 (24.3) (4†) | Severe hyaline membrane disease, (%) | 3 (3.8) (1†) | Transient tachypnea of the newborn, (%) | 4 (5.1) | Intrauterine ductus arteriosus closure | 2 (2.5) | (indomethacin), (%) | Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, (%) | 17 (21.7) (10†) | Potter syndrome, (%) | 1 (1.2) (1†) | Nephrourological malformation with | 1 (1.2) | oligoamnios, (%) | Idiopathic hypoplastic lung, (%) | 2 (2.5) (1†) | Idiopathic pulmonary arteriolar | 1 (1.2) (1†) | calcification, (%) | Pulmonary “arteriopathy”, (%) | 1 (1.2) (1†) | Arterial pulmonary thrombosis, (%) | 1 (1.2) (1†) | Fetal tachyarrhythmia, (%) | 1 (1.2) | Maternal diabetes, (%) | 1 (1.2) (1†) | Malformation of vein of Galeno, (%) | 2 (2.5) (2†) | Perinatal asphyxia, (%) | 4 (5.1) | Unknown aetiology, (%) | 6 (7.6) |
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†: deceased.
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