Association Between New Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Pulmonary Hypertension in Extremely Premature Newborns

Abstract

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is one of the most significant chronic complications of premature newborns treated in neonatal intensive care units. This thesis provides a deep review of the pathogenesis of BPD, the association of hypoxia with the development of BPD associated pulmonary hypertension (BPD-PH), and a discussion of BPD-PH as a whole. Echocardiographic techniques to detect the early presence of BPD-PH are discussed, and a practical demonstration of the signifiance of these echocardiographic values is provided for 4 patients from the department of Pediatrics at the University of Debrecen.