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Abstract
My tribute to Mary ellen avery.
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I was so pleased to learn that the inaugural issue of the neonatology specialty section of Frontiers in Neonatology would highlight Mary Ellen “Mel” Avery’s contributions to decades of neonatal research
Three are especially notable because they have saved the lives and improved the health of countless newborns: identification of surfactant deficiency as the cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), treatment of RDS with artificial surfactant, and prevention of RDS with antenatal steroids. In a paper she wrote about how it really happened, Mel dated her interest in respiratory physiology to the start of her pediatric internship at Johns Hopkins in 1952 [1]
1 month after she began her training, a routine tuberculin skin test that was positive and a small upper lobe infiltrate on a chest radiograph consistent with tuberculosis prompted a course of antibiotics and a prescription for 6 months of bed rest. Questions about her own treatment spurred her quest for more knowledge of respiratory physiology. Returning to her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins, Mel cared for many premature infants with a lung condition called hyaline membrane disease (HMD), and known as RDS
Summary
I was so pleased to learn that the inaugural issue of the neonatology specialty section of Frontiers in Neonatology would highlight Mary Ellen “Mel” Avery’s contributions to decades of neonatal research. Three are especially notable because they have saved the lives and improved the health of countless newborns: identification of surfactant deficiency as the cause of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), treatment of RDS with artificial surfactant, and prevention of RDS with antenatal steroids. Returning to her pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins, Mel cared for many premature infants with a lung condition called hyaline membrane disease (HMD), and known as RDS.
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