Energy Intake, Growth, and Development in Ventilated Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants With and Without Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Caloric intake and weight gain in a neonatal intensive care unit

“…As previously reported in other studies, [7,8,15], we also did not find any association between a higher incidence of comorbidities such as ROP, IVH, PDA, sepsis or BPD and the administration of higher and earlier lipid and amino acid caloric intakes in group 2. Hence, higher nutrient intake was not responsible for a worst clinical outcome.…”

Health and Developmental Outcomes at 18 Months in Very Preterm Infants With Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

“…Teberg et al 24 and Gray and coworkers 28 concluded that VLBW and preterm infants with BPD present a higher risk of neurodevelopmental delay but that this risk is associated with neonatal brain lesions and not respiratory problems. In the present study, infants with BPD at 36 weeks had more developmental delays, and this difference was maintained when we excluded infants with IVH grade 4, PVL, or both, as were findings by Meisel et al 29 Davidson and colleagues 30 found no significant neurodevelopmental difference between infants with or without BPD but described a strong association between duration of assisted ventilation and handicap. In our study, infants in the BPD-2 group were ventilated for a longer time compared with the other groups, and there was a strong association between ventilation and outcome.…”

Body composition in infants with chronic lung disease after treatment with dexamethasone

“…The long-term effects of dexamethasone treatment on growth in preterm infants with CLD remain uncertain. Several studies have shown that catch-up growth was been achieved within 3 y corrected age and differences in height and weight seem to persist until school age (24)(25)(26). With respect to reference values of body composition in infants, percentage FM in this study was higher than that reported by Rigo et al (15) but lower than that reported by Butte et al (27).…”