Neonatal Pneumothorax Radiopaedia

Neonatal Pneumothorax Radiopaedia. For those pneumothoraces occurring in. Causes of neonatal distress can be broadly split into intrathoracic, extrathoracic and systemic:

Respiratory distress syndrome (rds) of the newborn is an acute lung disease caused by surfactant deficiency, which leads to alveolar collapse and. But the largeness of mediastenum and cardiac silhouette are compressed by the bilateral tension pneumothorax which may be lead to cardiovascular collapse.