ArticleMedical journal, Armed Forces India2010
Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: An Insight.
Article in Medical journal, Armed Forces India, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The Effects of Different Types of Steroids on Clinical Outcomes in Neonates with Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and GRADE Assessment.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Pooled it
- Transitional Hemodynamics in Neonates Born Through Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid: A Prospective Observational Study.Pediatric cardiology · 2025Observational
- Incidence and predictors of respiratory tract infections among birth cohorts in Ethiopia, 2023.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- In vitro fertilization as an independent risk factor for perinatal complications: Single-center 10 years cohort study.JBRA assisted reproduction · 2023Article
- Factors associated with neonatal mortality in a tertiary hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2021Article
- Ultrasound of the pediatric chest.The British journal of radiology · 2019Review
- Golden hour of neonatal life: Need of the hour.Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2017Review
- A case of meconium aspiration syndrome in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) calf.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2014Article
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Abstract
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) is respiratory distress in a newborn baby caused by the presence of meconium in the tracheobronchial airways. The aspiration of meconium stained amniotic fluid by the fetus can happen during antepartum or intrapartum periods and can result in airway obstruction, interference with alveolar gas exchange, chemical pneumonitis as well as surfactant dysfunction. These pulmonary effects cause gross ventilation-perfusion mismatching. To complicate matters further, many infants with MAS have primary or secondary persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn as a result of chronic in utero stress and thickening of the pulmonary vessels. Although meconium is sterile, its presence in the air passages can predispose the infant to pulmonary infection. MAS is essentially a clinical diagnosis and should always be suspected in a child with respiratory distress and meconium-stained amniotic fluid at delivery. Though a known entity for a long time, its management still remains contentious. Intubation and direct tracheal suction is performed when meconium is observed in the amniotic fluid and the infant is not vigorous. Subsequent management involves ventilation, surfactant instillation and lavage, inhaled nitric oxide and high frequency ventilation. The role of steroids continues to be controversial.
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