we carried out a prospective study in 66 infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia within the first 6 hours of life to determine whether outcome is related to the degree of underlying pulmonary hypoplasia , as predicted by preoperative paco2 , when correlated with an index of ventilation ( vi = mean airway pressure x respiratory rate ) and confirmed by postmortem analysis of the lung .
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pulmonary hypoplasia
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lung