ABP Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Practice Questions - ABP Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Subspecialty Certification Examination Exam

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A term infant born through thick meconium-stained fluid develops respiratory distress, hypoxemia, and patchy infiltrates. Meconium aspiration syndrome causes hypoxemia primarily through which mechanism?

Direct viral injury to type II pneumocytes Chemical pneumonitis, airway obstruction with air trapping, and surfactant inactivation leading to V/Q mismatch and PPHN Alveolar hemorrhage from thrombocytopenia Congenital pulmonary airway malformation

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Chemical pneumonitis, airway obstruction with air trapping, and surfactant inactivation leading to V/Q mismatch and PPHN

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