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It was a day his family had long hoped would come - the day 19-month-old Jack Shields was discharged from Nationwide Children's Hospital. Jack and his twin, Jonah, were born 14 weeks early and developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung condition common among premature babies who require ventilators to breathe after birth. The national average states 20 percent of babies with severe BPD do not survive, but in the Comprehensive Center for BPD at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the survival rate is more than 99 percent after doctors and researchers developed a new approach to treatment.
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