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Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Fetal Pulmonary Surfactant, and Amniotic Fluid Phospholipid Analysis

  • Robert E. Wenk
    Correspondence
    Division of Clinical Pathology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 21215
    Affiliations
    Associate Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Head, Division of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland.
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)31098-9
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Fetal Pulmonary Surfactant, and Amniotic Fluid Phospholipid Analysis
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      A simple, inexpensive, and unidimensional thin-layer chromatographic method has been developed for rapidly estimating lecithin, sphingomyelin, and phosphatidyl glycerol extracted from amniotic fluid. Visualization of these three pulmonary surfactant phospholipids permits prediction of respiratory distress of the neonate in normal and complicated gestations.
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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)31098-9

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