Child health · UKMLA & AKT
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
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- Chronic lung disease of prematurity - oxygen requirement persisting beyond 28 days of life in a preterm infant, classified at 36 weeks corrected gestational age (CGA)
- Affects ~20-40% of infants born <28 weeks; rare after 32 weeks
- Modern ('new') BPD reflects arrested lung development (alveolar simplification, dysmorphic vasculature) rather than fibrotic scarring
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