Pulmonology

Neonatology

General Pediatrics

Cardiology

Impact of the Vulnerable Preterm Heart and Circulation on Adult Cardiovascular Disease

Chair(s)

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  Patrick McNamara, MD

  Division Chief, Neonatal Medicine
  Pediatrics
  University of Iowa
  Iowa city, Iowa, United States

Survival rates for extremely low birth weight infants have improved dramatically over the past 10-15 years. These advances are likely to be multifactorial and relate to increased appreciation of developmental organ vulnerability, improved understanding of disease mechanisms and contributing factors, enhanced diagnostic precision and therapeutic options. Unfortunately, enhanced survival does not guarantee avoidance of neonatal morbidity or adverse long-term health care outcomes. The traditional focus of outcomes research relates to neurodevelopment and cognitive functioning. Recent evidence highlights the relationship between prematurity and increased risk of adverse cardiopulmonary health during early adulthood, even in healthy and more mature premature infants. Unfortunately, data are limited regarding the relationship of heart function or other cardiovascular illness during the perinatal period and these outcomes. There is a critical need to increase awareness of these adverse health care outcomes and establish research teams to investigate risk factors and develop preventative approaches. In this symposium, we will review the developmental vulnerability of the premature infant; discuss the impact of prematurity of right/left ventricular function and vascular performance in the pulmonary/systemic beds and highlight areas for innovation and future research that may provide mechanistic insight and guide prevention and treatment approaches.

Presentations:

• 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM US CT

  Developmental Vulnerability of the extremely low Birth Weight Infant
  

  Presenter: Patrick McNamara, MD – University of Iowa
• 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM US CT

  Moving Beyond Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Cardiac phenotyping in premature infants over the first year of age
  

  Presenter: Philip Levy, MD – Boston Childrens Hospital
• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM US CT

  Pulmonary Vascular and Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Adults Born Preterm
  

  Presenter: Kara N. Goss, MD – University of Texas Southwestern
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM US CT

  Mechanisms of left ventricular changes after preterm birth: Translational experimental studies
  

  Presenter: Anne Monique Nuyt, MD – CHU SAINTE-JUSTINE/Department of Pediatrics/Université de Montreal
• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM US CT

  Altered preterm LV phenotype: A look across developmental stages
  

  Presenter: Adam Lewandowski, DPhil – University of Oxford
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM US CT

  Premature systemic vascular aging in survivors of preterm birth
  

  Presenter: Melissa Bates, PhD – University of Iowa
• 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM US CT

  Break
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas
• 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM US CT

  Click for Live Q&A: Impact of the Vulnerable Preterm Heart and Circulation on Adult Cardiovascular Disease
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas