Chronic Lung Disease in Early Infancy (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Publisher: Marcel Dekker (E)
Published: September 1999
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 1096
ISBN-13: 9780824741877
Subjects: Medical
First sentence: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) was first described in 1967 in a report documenting the clinical, radiologic, and pathological changes seen in prematurely born infants with severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) who had been treated with prolonged mechanical ventilation and warm, humidified 80-100% concentrations of oxygen (1).