When looking at a pressure-volume curve, a lung with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) would have a ___________ curve compared to a normal lung.

In inborn errors of metabolism, presenting symptoms are generally due to specific metabolic effects caused by:

The ability of the neonatal heart to operate according to the Frank-Starling law is ____compared to the normal adult heart?

Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) can affect:

The range of environmental temperatures in which an infant can maintain a normal body temperature with metabolic rate at a minimum with nonevaporative processes only is known as:

Masculinization of external genitalia is induced by which hormone?

You are caring for a 3 day old 26 week male who has a history of placental abruption at birth followed by congenital anemia. He has been hypotensive, has required multiple blood product transfusions, and remains intubated on ventilatory support despite 2 doses of surfactant. You obtain a cranial ultrasound that shows acute ventricular dilatation with blood products filling > 50% of the ventricles bilaterally and extending into the surrounding white matter. This finding is consistent with a:

Bird feathers are laid out in well-defined tracts called apteria.

An A+ blood type infant is born to an O+ blood type mother. This infant is ____

Persistent pulmonary hypertension results in: