Contents Preface vi Guest Editors vii Introduction ix List of abbreviations xii The structure and function of the newborn respiratory system 1. In utero and post-natal development of the human lung and its 1 defence mechanisms Daniel T. Swarr, Hitesh Deshmukh and William Zacharias 2. Respiratory physiology 21 Antonella LoMauro and Emanuela Zannin Neonatal lung disease in preterm infants 3. Respiratory support in the delivery suite and the NICU 38 Gretchen Stepanovich and Steven M. Donn 4. Pathogenesis of BPD 50 Ivana Mižíková, Miguel Angel Alejandre Alcazar and Bernard Thébaud 5. Long-term sequelae of BPD 68 Theodore Dassios and Anne Greenough 6. Management of BPD: strategies to prevent short- and 79 long-term complications following discharge from the NICU Katie Rose, Clare Woodland, Gemma Murphy and Ian P. Sinha 7. Pulmonary hypertension in preterm infants 89 Caroline B. Jones and Melonie Johns 8. When and how to close patent ductus arteriosus in a preterm infant 104 Ramana Rao V. Dhannapuneni, Sok-Leng Kang and Nimish V. Subhedar 9. Primary ciliary dyskinesia 118 Woolf T. Walker and Lucy H. Everitt ERS monograph Respiratory Diseases of the Newborn Infant Number 92 June 2021