Improving Survival for Premature Babies

Chest radiograph of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Photo: Pulmonological, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.

In a new study, researchers analyzed the in-hospital outcomes for preterm infants with established bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) referred to Nationwide Children’s Comprehensive Center for BPD. They found that despite the high degree of illness severity in these patients, nearly all of them survived to hospital discharge with improvement in comorbidities.

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