THE absence of fibrinolytic enzyme activity in the A lungs of newborn infants succumbing to hyaline-membrane disease was recently reported. 1 This enzyme abnormality was manifested by an inability of ...

Extract: Plasminogen-activator activity was measured in lungs from 7 newborn premature infants examined at autopsy (control lungs) and 11 infants dying of hyaline membrane disease (hyaline membrane ...

IT has been demonstrated that pulmonary hyaline membranes in newborn infants have a basic fibrin composition that resembles a plasma clot. 1,2 The presence of fibrin in the lungs of these infants is ...

Background: Sequestration and the persistence of neutrophils in the lungs of infants with hyaline membrane disease (HMD) have been associated with pulmonary injury and the subsequent development of ...

When a baby is born prematurely, he is especially susceptible to a breathing difficulty that develops into hyaline membrane disease. The inner linings of the lungs get covered with a membrane that ...

Hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies and kills an estimated 50,000 in the U.S. every year, was little known to laymen until it claimed its most prominent victim, Patrick ...