Eleven years' experience with retinopathy of prematurity: visual results and contribution of cryoablation.
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- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 75 (3) , 158-159
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.75.3.158
Abstract
We report our 11 years' experience of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Charts of 624 infants weighing under 1250 g who were admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during 1977-87 were reviewed. Three hundred and eighty nine babies survived, and the total ROP prevalence was 57.5%. Cryotherapy was applied to 35%. Only one case (0.25%) of blindness was detected, and four babies (1%) had a final visual acuity of less than 20/200 in one eye. The complication rate following cryoablation was very low.Keywords
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