Hydrocortisone to Improve Survival without Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Kristi L Watterberg¹, Michele C Walsh¹, Lei Li¹+49

• ¹From the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque (K.L.W., C.B.-L., J.R.L.); the Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (M.C.W., A.M.H., D.E.W.-C.), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati (B.B.P., S.M.), and the Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus (M.M., N.L.M.) - all in Ohio; the Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Research Triangle Park (L.L.), the Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham (R.N.G., C.M.C., W.F.M.), and the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (M.M.L.) - all in North Carolina; the Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University (S.C., G.N.), and the Department of Pediatrics, Central Michigan University (S.C.) - both in Detroit; the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester (C.T.D., P.R.C.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Buffalo Women's and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo (A.M.R.) - both in New York; the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto (S.R.H., K.P.V.M.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (M.G., I.B.P.) - both in California; the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (B.A.Y., S.W.); the Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston (K.A.K., G.E.M., A.M.K., R.A.M.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (M.H.W., R.J.H.) - both in Texas; the Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Rockville (A.D., M.M.C.), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda (R.D.H.) - both in Maryland; the Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI (M.K., E.C.M.); the Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis (G.M.S., A.C.H.); Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta (B.B.P., R.M.P., N.L.M., I.A.-C.); the Division of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (N.A., M.P.-C.); the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO (W.E.T., H.W.K.); the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia (B.S., S.B.D.); the Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City (E.F.B., H.M.H.); the Department of Pediatrics, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls (L.R.M., L.A.H.); and the College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (R.D.H.).