John P Kinsella, D Dunbar Ivy, Steven H Abman
Pulmonary hypertension complicates the course of many newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. In the most severe cases, the fetal condition of markedly elevated pulmonary vascular resistance persists after birth and is associated with hypoxemic respiratory failure and severe disturbances in cardiac performance. Late pulmonary hypertension (weeks to months after birth) is increasingly recognized in this population, and chronic pulmonary vascular abnormalities (months to years after birth) are now being discovered...
April 2005: Seminars in Perinatology