Chronic Lung Disease after Premature Birth  

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Baraldi, Eugenio ; Filippone, Marco

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 357 no. 19 (Nov. 2007), page 1946.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2007.06 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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1967, Northway et al. first described a new chronic respiratory disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, that developed in premature infants exposed to mechanical ventilation and oxygen supplementation.1 Two decades later, the same authors found that clinically significant respiratory symptoms and functional abnormalities persisted into adolescence and early adulthood in a cohort of survivors of bronchopulmonary dysplasia,2 suggesting that lung injuries early in life may have lifelong consequences. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is now the most common chronic lung disease of infancy in the United States. Today, newborns consistently survive at gestational ages of 23 to 26 weeks — 8 to 10 weeks younger . . .

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