Each patient underwent both the 14-zone and 12-zone lung ultrasound methods, as well as a chest x-ray, performed after birth and before initiating drug treatment. Surfactant replacement therapy was ...

Doctors diagnosed their baby, Kylie, with a rare genetic disease called “Surfactant B Deficiency,” a condition that occurs in just one in 1 million newborns worldwide. Surfactant B deficiency ...

Doctors diagnosed their baby, Kylie, with a rare genetic disease called “Surfactant B Deficiency,” a condition that occurs in just one in 1 million newborns worldwide. Surfactant B deficiency causes ...

A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swaths of the country. It essentially disappeared after some food makers started adding it to table salt, bread, and some other foods ...

This section presents the considered binary-fluid-surfactant system and modeling paradigm. The binary-fluid system is set on an ambient domain, and we derive the balance laws for an arbitrary control ...

Alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells maintain lung health by acting as stem cells and producing pulmonary surfactant. AT2 dysfunction underlies many lung diseases, including interstitial lung disease (ILD), in ...