Diagnostic Approach to Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Neonates
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Diagnostic Approach to Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Neonates
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a form of chronic lung disease in premature infants following respiratory distress at birth. With increasing survival of extremely low birth weight infants, alveolar simplification is the defining lung characteristic of infants with BPD, and along with pulmonary hypertension, increasingly contributes to both respiratory morbidity and mortality in these infant...
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عنوان ژورنال: Children
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2227-9067
DOI: 10.3390/children4090075