Neonatal Pulmonary MRI of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Predicts Short-term Clinical Outcomes.

CONCLUSIONS: Quiet-breathing neonatal pulmonary MRI can independently assess structural abnormalities of BPD, describe disease severity, and predict short-term outcomes more accurately than any individual standard clinical measure. Importantly, this non-ionizing technique can be implemented to phenotype disease and has potential to serially assess efficacy of individualized therapies.
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Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - May 23, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Higano NS, Spielberg DR, Fleck RJ, Schapiro AH, Walkup LL, Hahn AD, Tkach JA, Kingma PS, Merhar SL, Fain SB, Woods JC Tags: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research