Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of Non Cardiac Cause in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Table 2

Causes of PPHN (𝑛=78).

Aspiration of bloody amniotic fluid, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2)
Aspiration of blood from upper airways	1 (1.2)
(traumatic intubation), 𝑛 (%)
Meconium aspiration syndrome, 𝑛 (%)	10 (12.8) (2^†)
Congenital pneumonia and sepsis, 𝑛 (%)	19 (24.3) (4^†)
Severe hyaline membrane disease, 𝑛 (%)	3 (3.8) (1^†)
Transient tachypnea of the newborn, 𝑛 (%)	4 (5.1)
Intrauterine ductus arteriosus closure	2 (2.5)
(indomethacin), 𝑛 (%)
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia, 𝑛 (%)	17 (21.7) (10^†)
Potter syndrome, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2) (1^†)
Nephrourological malformation with	1 (1.2)
oligoamnios, 𝑛 (%)
Idiopathic hypoplastic lung, 𝑛 (%)	2 (2.5) (1^†)
Idiopathic pulmonary arteriolar	1 (1.2) (1^†)
calcification, 𝑛 (%)
Pulmonary “arteriopathy”, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2) (1^†)
Arterial pulmonary thrombosis, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2) (1^†)
Fetal tachyarrhythmia, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2)
Maternal diabetes, 𝑛 (%)	1 (1.2) (1^†)
Malformation of vein of Galeno, 𝑛 (%)	2 (2.5) (2^†)
Perinatal asphyxia, 𝑛 (%)	4 (5.1)
Unknown aetiology, 𝑛 (%)	6 (7.6)

^†: deceased.