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J Appl Physiol 79: 846-851, 1995;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 79, Issue 3 846-851, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of fetal corticosteroid treatments on postnatal surfactant function in preterm lambs

T. Ueda, M. Ikegami, D. Polk, K. Mizuno and A. Jobe
Department of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, School of Medicine, Torrance 90509, USA.

Effects of prenatal corticosteroid on the properties of surfactant have not previously been evaluated. A single ultrasound-guided fetal injection with 0.5 mg/kg betamethasone 48 h before delivery of preterm lambs at 134- to 135-days gestation improved oxygenation, lowered the ventilatory pressures required to maintain arterial PCO2 between 30 and 40 Torr and decreased the protein leak of albumin from the intravascular to the alveolar space. This dose of glucocorticoid did not alter surfactant-saturated phosphatidylcholine pool sizes in the airspaces of preterm lambs. However, the treatment changed the characteristics of the surfactant recovered from the ventilated preterm lambs. The in vitro conversion from heavy to light subtype surfactant decreased from 59% for the saline-treated lambs to 37% for the corticosteroid-treated lambs after 180 min of surface area cycling (P < 0.02). Surfactant from the corticosteroid-treated lambs also increased the dynamic compliance of preterm surfactant-deficient rabbits more than did surfactant from the saline-treated lambs (P < 0.05). Prenatal treatment of preterm lambs with betamethasone improved the functional characteristics of surfactant without significant effects on the alveolar surfactant pool sizes.


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