The fetus is at increased risk for a variety of life-threatening conditions, including pulmonary hypoplasia (immature lungs).

Studies have shown both the efficacy and safety of liquid ventilation in normal, mature and immature newborn lungs.

The quintuplets had immature lungs and needed a breathing machine.

Premature infants are prone to serious medical problems, including brain damage, blindness and breathing difficulty due to immature lungs.

It revealed that the baby had extremely immature lungs and that the hand-pumping had torn a small hole in one of them.

If the tests show immature lungs, the mother is treated with a short course of corticosteroid therapy to speed up maturation.

Surfactants, which have been prescribed since 1990, supply a missing component to infants with immature lungs.

Many of the octuplets' problems, like immature lungs, a perforated intestine and the heart vessel condition, are those faced by any premature infant.

Premature newborns can suffer from immature lungs that is associated with respiratory complications.

It happened, for example, with a test for acidic blood in premature babies, whose immature lungs have difficulty excreting carbon dioxide.