Hipoerpessão Pulmonar Persistente do Recém-Nascido (PPHN)
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**I. Diagnostic Methods**
* Echocardiography: To screen for PPHN and rule out structural heart lesions
* Echocardiography with Doppler and color-flow mapping: To assess intracardiac shunt and pulmonary arterial pressures
* Cranial ultrasonography: To evaluate for intraventricular bleeding and peripheral hemorrhage or infarct
* Brain computed tomography scanning or magnetic resonance imaging: To evaluate central nervous system injury
**II. Procedural Management**
* Cardiac catheterization: Rarely utilized to exclude congenital heart disease
**III. General Management Principles**
* Continuous monitoring of oxygenation, blood pressure, and perfusion
* Maintaining normal body temperature
* Correction of electrolytes/glucose abnormalities and metabolic acidosis
* Nutritional support
* Minimal stimulation/handling of the newborn
* Minimal use of invasive procedures (e.g., suctioning)
**IV. Medical Therapy**
* Inotropic support (e.g., dopamine, dobutamine, milrinone)
* Surfactant administration: For premature and full-term newborns with parenchymal lung disease
* Endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation: To maintain normal functional residual capacity
* High-frequency ventilation: Used in newborns with underlying parenchymal lung disease and low lung volumes
* Correction of hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, acidosis, and alkalosis
* Induced paralysis: Controversial; paralytic agents are typically reserved for newborns who cannot be treated with sedatives alone
**V. Pharmacotherapy**
* Inhaled pulmonary vasodilators (e.g., nitric oxide) and supplemental oxygen
* Systemic vasodilators: Potentially beneficial for chronic PPHN after the newborn period (e.g., prostacyclin, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, endothelin receptor antagonists)
* Prostaglandin E1 if the ductus arteriosus is closed or restrictive in the setting of suprasystemic pulmonary artery pressures and/or right ventricular dysfunction leading to poor systemic perfusion