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Respiratory Distress in Newborn

Transient tachypnoea of the newborn
- delay in resorption of lung fluid
- more common after caesarian section
meconium aspiration
- lung overinflation + patches of collapse and consolidation
pneumonia
pneumothorax
persistent pulmonary hypertension of newborn
milk aspiration
rare
- diaphragmatic hernia
- tracheo-oesophageal fistula
- pulmonary hypoplasia
- airways obstruction
  - choanal atresia
- pulmonary haemorrhage
non-pulmonary
- congenital heart disease
- intracranial birth trauma / asphyxia
- severe anaemia
- metabolic acidosis

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