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Wataru Sakai1, Hidetsugu Asai2, Tomohiro Chaki3
1Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hokkaido Medical Center for Child Health and Rehabilitation, Japan.
Cardiology in the Young
|June 11, 2026
Abstract
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Three infants developed ARDS-like lung injury after Glenn or Fontan procedures, each following infection or inflammation. All showed unusually high elevations of epithelial injury markers such as KL-6 and surfactant protein D (SP-D). These findings suggest a distinct post-bypass phenotype in which right-heart circulation may amplify epithelial injury beyond that seen in typical paediatric ARDS.
