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Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

"Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A chronic lung disease developed after OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY or mechanical ventilation (VENTILATION, MECHANICAL) usually occurring in certain premature infants (INFANT, PREMATURE) or newborn infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN). Histologically, it is characterized by the unusual abnormalities of the bronchioles, such as METAPLASIA, decrease in alveolar number, and formation of CYSTS.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 176 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2021
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.