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Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Disease definition
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is a chronic respiratory disease that results from complications related to lung injury during the treatment of infant acute respiratory distress syndrome (see these terms) in low-birth-weight premature infants or from abnormal lung development in older infants. Clinical signs are tachypnea, tachycardia and signs of respiratory distress such as intercostal recession, grunting and nasal flaring.
ORPHA:70589
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- Greek (2012, pdf)
- Suomi (2012, pdf)
- Anesthesia guidelines
- Czech (2016)
- English (2016)
- Español (2016)
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