Tantalizing Therapeutics in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Table of Contents

Section 1: Current Therapeutics: State of the Art

1. Systemic and topical glucocorticoids to prevent BPD

Kristi Watterberg and Olivier Baud

2. Use of caffeine for prevention of BPD

Abhay Lodha, Stefani Doucette, and?Vineet Bhandari

3. Next Generation ventilator strategies to prevent/manage BPD

Martin Keszler and Ashish Gupta

Section 2: Ongoing Therapeutic Studies with Translational Potential

4. End points for therapeutic trials for BPD: lessons learned from clinical trials

Judy L. Aschner and?Cynthia T. McEvoy

5. What can exogenous surfactant provide in the fight against BPD?

Peter A. Dargaville

6. Stem cells in the treatment of BPD

So Yoon Ahn, Yun Sil Chang, Won Soon Park

Section 3: Future Therapeutic Directions

7. Extracellular vesicles in the therapy of BPD

Flore Lesage and Bernard Thebaud

8. Growth factors in the therapy of BPD

Heber C. Nielsen, Anne Chetty, and Vineet Bhandari

9. Antenatal approaches in the therapy of BPD

Andre Gie, Ignacio Valenzuela, Thomas Salaets, Jan Deprest, and Jaan Toelen

10. miRs -mere hype or master regulators in the therapy of BPD?

Charitharth Vivek Lal, Vivek Shukla, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, and Vineet Bhandari

11. Immune modulators for the therapy of BPD

Margaret Gilfillan and Vineet Bhandari

Authors

Vineet Bhandari Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), The Children's Regional Hospital at Cooper/Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ. Dr. Bhandari is the Division Head of Neonatology at The Children's Regional Hospital at Cooper/Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ. He previously served as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Dr. Bhandari has been awarded three patents, with a fourth pending. He is an Associate Editor of Pediatric Research, BMC Pediatrics, Frontiers in Pediatrics and Internet Journal of Medical Update. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Perinatology. He has also served as Guest Editor, Managing Editor and Contributing Editor of several other publications. He is a manuscript reviewer for almost 100 research publications and has published over 290 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books.