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SynthesisMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2025

Comparative Efficacy and Safety Profile of the Combination of Pulmonary Surfactant and Budesonide vs. Surfactant Alone in the Management of Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome: An Updated Meta-Analysis.

Urooj Fatima, Naveera Naveed, Zahra Riaz, Emaan Khalid, Aemon Qamer, Shehmeen Baig, Roshaan Fatima, Asawir Hussain, Zoya Mustunsar, Ayesha Khan and 5 more

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Synthesis in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Urooj FatimaDepartment of Medicine, Services Institute of Medical Science (SIMS), Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0001-3179-9682
Naveera NaveedDepartment of Radiology, Shahida Islam Medical College, Bahawalpur 60600, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0001-0251-2830
Zahra RiazDepartment of Medicine, Sargodha Medical College, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0004-8208-9914
Emaan KhalidDepartment of Medicine, Services Institute of Medical Science (SIMS), Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0005-0584-6907
Aemon QamerDepartment of Medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi 74700, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0000-0106-0476
Shehmeen BaigDepartment of Medicine, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Karachi 74700, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0004-3653-6007
Roshaan FatimaDepartment of Medicine, Sargodha Medical College, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0008-0825-0828
Asawir HussainDepartment of Medicine, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore 54550, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0002-6907-510X
Zoya MustunsarDepartment of Medicine, University College of Medicine and Dentistry (The University of Lahore), Lahore 54600, Pakistan.
Ayesha KhanDepartment of Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi 74200, Pakistan.
Sadia ManganDepartment of Medicine, Ziauddin Medical College, Karachi 75600, Pakistan.
Mehak KumariDepartment of Medicine, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Shahdadpur 76090, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0009-5152-9178
Soban Ali QasimDepartment of Internal Medicine, Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan 59300, Pakistan.
Ali HasanDepartment of Medicine, National heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Raheel AhmedDepartment of Medicine, National heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

BudesonidePulmonary SurfactantsRespiratory Distress Syndrome, NewbornBronchopulmonary DysplasiaDrug Therapy, CombinationHumansInfant, NewbornRespiration, ArtificialTreatment OutcomeBudesonidePulmonary SurfactantsbudesonideNeonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (NRDS)pulmonary surfactant (PS)

Identifiers

PMID40870374
PMCPMC12387412

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