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Atelectasis is a condition characterized by lung collapse, which can be subtotal (25–50% collapse) or total (100% collapse).
Atelectasis can result due air resorption (resorptive atelectasis), lung compression (compression atelectasis), or loss of the surfactant in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and hyaline membrane disease (respiratory distress syndrome) in preterm infants (microatelectases). Pulmonary atelectasis is a recognized complication of general anesthesia.
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Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (2010). Atelectasis (Lung Collapse). In: Al-Tubaikh, J.A. (eds) Internal Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03709-2_20
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