Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia [Hardcover]

Addressing the dramatic number of children diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in recent years, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia provides pulmonologists, critical care specialists, and pediatricians with up-to-date diagnostic and treatment techniques and therapies to effectively manage all BPD cases.
Key benefits include: groundbreaking research-covers the latest discoveries in BPD genetics, epidemiology, and pathogenesis, as well as current-and sometimes controversial-therapies to help clinicians properly detect the disease and choose the best treatment plan expert editorship-Dr. Steven H. Abman, Director of the Pediatric Heart Lung Center, and a team of 49 highly experienced and respected contributors provide authoritative advice physicians can rely on timely, stand-alone resource-this one-stop, convenient guide discusses all of the current, critical information clinicians need to manage the increase in diagnosed children well-organized content-four clear and highly structured sections give busy physicians quick access to the key diagnostic and therapeutic intricacies of BDP

Part I: Mechanisms of Lung Growth and Development
Genetic Mechanisms of Lung Development and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: An Integrative View
David Warburton and Wei Shi
Growth Factors and Cell-Cell Interactions During Lung Development
Emily Fox and Martin Post
Basic Mechanisms of Alveolarization
Jacques R. Bourbon, Christophe Delacourt, and Olivier Boucherat
Lung Vascular Development
Alison A. Hislop
Part II: Mechanisms of Disrupted Lung Development and Repair in the Pathobiology of BPD
Oxidative and Nitrosative Stress and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Richard L. Auten and Carl White
Prenatal Inflammation and Immune Responses of the Preterm Lung
Suhas KallapurlCÖ