why does diabetes affect the lung surfactant of the fetus?
Neonate born at 38 weeks getsation with RDS by elective cesearean section.Mother has poorly controlled diabetes, how could this affect the lung surfactant?
I don’t think that the answer to that is well-understood, just as diabetic mothers have also been associated to giving birth to children with transposition of the great arteries (aorta and pulmonary trunk) [...]