Pulmonology · Pulmonology / Neonatal lung disease
Transient tachypnea of the newborn syndrome
also: Wet lung syndrome
Self-limited neonatal tachypnea from delayed fetal lung fluid clearance.
- Specialty
- Pulmonology
- Subspecialty
- Pulmonology / Neonatal lung disease
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, slight male predominance; Female: affected; Children: yes, term and late preterm neonates
- Gene(s) involved
- SCNN1A, SCNN1B, SCNN1G
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Wet lung syndrome
Etiology & mechanism
Impaired epithelial sodium channel-mediated lung fluid absorption.
Gene(s) involved (3)
Symptoms & signs (5)
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3 shared
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cyanosis, grunting, tachypnea
2 shared
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cyanosis, tachypnea
1 shared
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tachypnea
1 shared
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cyanosis
1 shared
Eisenmenger syndrome
cyanosis
1 shared
Hepatopulmonary syndrome
cyanosis
1 shared
Heterotaxy syndrome
cyanosis
1 shared
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tachypnea
1 shared
Ivemark syndrome
cyanosis
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