BookAnna Maria Hibbs, Marianne S. Muhlebach, editors.
Summary: This book presents pulmonary outcomes of prematurity, from their emergence in infancy through to their consequences in adulthood. With an increasing number of preterm births and more infants surviving, there is now a larger population of adults with lung disease originating in infancy requiring specialized care. Looking at the whole group of preterm infants, not just those with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, this text covers a wide spectrum of pulmonary outcomes, including: pulmonary hypertension, wheezing, and alterations in sleep. The chapter authors focus on critically appraising what is and is not known about each outcome and suggest key questions that still need to be answered. Respiratory Outcomes in Preterm Infants: Sequelae from Infancy through Adulthood is an ideal reference for the multidisciplinary group that cares for these preterm infants and the adults they become, including: neonatologists, pediatric pulmonologists, pediatricians, adult pulmonologists, primary care physicians, nurses, and fellows.
Contents:
The problem of the preterm lung: definitions, history, and epidemiology
Why do preterm infants wheeze? Clues from epidemiology
Why do former preterm infants wheeze? Clues from the laboratory
The bronchopulmonary dysplasia diagnosis: definitions, utility, limitations
Structural and functional changes in the preterm lung
Diagnostic modalities: pulmonary function testing and imaging
Longer term sequelae of prematurity: the adolescent and young adult
Adverse outcomes do not stop at discharge: post-NICU health care use by prematurely born infants
Opportunities to promote primary prevention of post neonatal intensive care unit respiratory morbidity in the premature infant
Sleep outcomes in children born prematurely
Airway outcomes
Pulmonary hypertension in bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Infection and inflammation: catalysts of pulmonary morbidity in bronchopulmonary dysplasia.