Delestrain C, Flamein F, Jonard L, Couderc R, Guillot L, Fanen P, Epaud R. [Lung diseases in children associated with inherited disorders of surfactant metabolism].
REVUE DE PNEUMOLOGIE CLINIQUE 2013;
69:183-189. [PMID:
23856024 DOI:
10.1016/j.pneumo.2013.05.002]
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Abstract
Pulmonary surfactant is a unique mixture of lipids and specific proteins that reduces surface tension at the air-liquid interface, preventing collapse of the lung at the end of expiration. Recessive loss-of-function mutations of pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B) was initially described in infants who develop respiratory failure at birth. More recently, mutations in other constitutive surfactant proteins like surfactant protein C or implied in its metabolism like ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A, member 3 (ABCA3) or NK2 homeobox (NKX2-1) were identified in newborn with respiratory distress but also in children with diffuse infiltrative pneumonia. Intra-alveolar accumulation of protein related to surfactant dysfunction leads to cough, hypoxemia and radiological abnormalities including ground-glass opacities and lung cysts. The clinical and radiological features associated with these genetic disorders, along with their treatment and outcome, are reviewed.
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