Issue: 2013, Vol. 18, No. 4
Cytologic examination of tracheal aspirates in extremely preterm newborns with respiratory disorders
- Keywords
- extremely preterm infants, tracheal aspirate, respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia
- Abstarct
- Tracheal aspirates in extremely preterm infants were examined. It was demonstrated that endopulmonic cytogram in infants with congenital pneumonia was characterized by bacterial and viral flora presence, by alveolar epithelium cells destruction signs (predominantly necrobiosis and necrosis) and by higher average quantity of polymorphonuclear leucocytes in comparison with respiratory distress syndrome. Unchanged number of alveolocytes was significantly higher in cytogram in respiratory distress syndrome in comparison with pneumonia; respiratory epithelium cells were destructed by apoptosis predominantly.