[Former preterm infant with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: how will this be cared for in 2014?].

Abstract

Major improvements in perinatal care have led to increased survival after premature birth and have allowed the survival of very young and immature newborns. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is a serious complication of prematurity and has become a developmental lung disorder, hardly preventable due to its multiple causes. The treatment serves to maintain a normal growth, reduce the respiratory workload, and prevent further complications, by trying not to interfer with postnatal lung development. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia may be associated with bronchial hyperreactivity and an obstructive bronchial pattern that may lead to frequent hospital admissions for reactive airway disease in the small child, and contribute to the persistence of chronic lung disease mainly as a new chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotype in adulthood.

• Authors: A Mornand, M Roth-Kleiner, G Hafen, C Barazzone Argiroffo, I Rochat
• Journal: Revue medicale suisse (Rev Med Suisse) Vol. 10 Issue 418 Pg. 430-4 (Feb 19 2014) ISSN: 1660-9379 [Print] Switzerland
• Vernacular Title: Ancien prématuré avec dysplasie bronchopulmonaire: quelle prise en charge en 2014?
• PMID: 24640278 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Bronchial Hyperreactivity (etiology, physiopathology, therapy)
• Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (etiology, physiopathology, therapy)
• Child
• Chronic Disease
• Hospitalization (statistics & numerical data)
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant, Newborn
• Infant, Premature
• Lung Diseases (epidemiology, etiology, physiopathology)
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive (epidemiology, etiology, physiopathology)