CRP and meconium aspiration syndrome: However, diagnosis of consideration is required: the spurious increase in the level of CRP in numerous conditions such as meconium aspiration syndrome, delayed transition after birth, premature infant exposure to glucocorticoids, prolonged rupture of membranes, stressful delivery or fetal distress, prolonged labor, maternal fever during labor, perinatal asphyxia or shock, surfactant administration, intra-ventricular hemorrhage, and pneumothorax, may mislead the diagnosis [37, 64, 67].