Initial treatments attempt to improve low blood oxygenation and high pulmonary blood pressures. Because blood oxygen content is usually very low, babies with<unk>  are often intubated, sedated, and mechanically ventilated with pure oxygen. Pulmonary vasodilators like sildenafil or inhaled nitric oxide can be used to reduce pulmonary blood pressures. For those with severe<unk> , these measures offer only momentary improvement. As symptoms worsen, ECMO can be used, but it also offers only brief improvement. There are no effective treatments for severe<unk> . For infants with atypical<unk>  who initially had milder symptoms and present at months of life, there can be better response to therapy. There have been reports of infants with<unk>  surviving to 20 or 36 months without lung transplantation. Bilateral lung transplantation may be the definitive treatment.
Alveolar capillary dysplasia
Persistent fetal circulation
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
Sepsis
Congenital pulmonary airway malformation
Pneumonia
Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis
Infant respiratory distress syndrome