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Artificial ventilation of preterm babies is increasingly used in the neonatal intensive care units. Recurrent bronchitis, obstructive bronchitis, pneumonia and respiratory insufficiency are well known sequelae in some of these patients. We are following 18 children with BPD. 10 of them are suffering from recurrent respiratory infections and obstructive bronchitis. These children are having mild or moderate respiratory insufficiency. In pulmonary function studies both restrictive and obstructive respiratory function disturbances are noticed, and decreased diffusion capacity up to 50 % has been noticed in one of the patients. The chest X-ray shows signs of chronic pulmonary disease. Our finding indicates that some of the patients with bronchopulmonary dysplasia are suffering from a combined parenchymal and bronchial pulmonary function disturbance. During the follow-up study pulmonary hypertension, circulatory anomalies, broncho-oesophagial functional or anatomical disturbances and bronchial hyperactivity are excluded. Our observations indicate that BPD in small premature children correlates to clinical lung disease later in childhood.
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Juntunen, K., Järvenpää, A., Hallman, M. et al. A FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF CHILDREN WITH BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA (BPD). Pediatr Res 19, 1096 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198510000-00163
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