A Term Newborn Boy Is Evaluated in the Neonatal Intensive

question 39

Multiple Choice

A term newborn boy is evaluated in the neonatal intensive care unit for respiratory distress.  Apgar scores are 2 and 5 at 1 and 5 minutes, respectively.  Respirations are 84/min.  On examination, the patient has a barrel chest with a scaphoid abdomen and mild cyanosis of his extremities.  Auscultation shows absent breath sounds on the left; right lung aeration is normal.  Chest x-ray reveals multiple fluid-containing cystic areas on the left and a mediastinal shift to the right.  Which of the following embryologic events most likely failed to occur in this patient?

• A)Closure of the pleuroperitoneal fold
• B)Closure of the ventral body wall
• C)Formation of the pleuropericardial membrane
• D)Rotation of the midgut
• E)Separation of the dorsal and ventral foregut

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