Sentences with phrase «infant lung function»

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Because of the beneficial effect of corticosteroids on lung function, especially in infants who are ventilator dependent, corticosteroids are, at times, administered to very low birth weight neonates to treat established or evolving lung disease.

But it is thought that the sudden drop in prostaglandin blood levels after birth (much of the prostaglandins was made in the infants placenta), an increase in the infants blood oxygen level as its lungs begin to function and decreased resistance to blood flow as the infant's lungs fully expand drive the closure process.