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Infant acute respiratory distress syndrome
Disease definition
Infant acute respiratory distress syndrome is a lung disorder that affects premature infants caused by developmental insufficiency of surfactant production and structural immaturity of the lungs. The symptoms usually appear shortly after birth and may include tachypnea, tachycardia, chest wall retractions (recession), expiratory grunting, nasal flaring and cyanosis during breathing efforts.
ORPHA:70587
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Hyaline membrane disease
- Infant ARDS
- Infant respiratory distress syndrome
- Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
- Prevalence: 1-5 / 10 000
- Inheritance: Not applicable
- Age of onset: Infancy, Neonatal
- ICD-10: P22.0
- ICD-11: KB23.0
- OMIM: 267450
- UMLS: C0020192 C0035220 C0852283
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
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