Blood pressure in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia in the first three months of life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neonatal hypertension is common in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Our study aimed to examine blood pressure variation in the first three months of life in preterm BPD patients.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, single-centre study at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University of Szeged, Hungary. We collected blood pressure data from 26 preterm infants (born at < 30 weeks gestation) with moderate or severe BPD over three years (2019-2021). We calculated the BPD group's daily average blood pressure values and used previously defined normal blood pressure values from a preterm patient group born at < 30 weeks gestation as a reference. We used 19,481 systolic, diastolic and mean blood pressure measurement data separately to calculat

SUBMITTER: Kiss JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199223 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature