Journal Club - Rethinking the Link Between BPD Grades and Pulmonary Hypertension
The Incubator Channel · 1 Apr 2026 · 20 min
Summary
Ben and Daphna review a Journal of Pediatrics paper from the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network examining invasive haemodynamic metrics and long-term outcomes in infants with BPD-associated pulmonary hypertension. They discuss the finding that pulmonary hypertension was distributed almost equally across mild, moderate and severe BPD grades using the Jensen criteria, and question whether 36-week assessment and current grading capture pulmonary vascular disease severity.
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