Efficacy of wide-field digital retinal imaging for retinopathy of prematurity screening

Abstract

Wide-field digital retinal imaging is accurate, reliable and efficient in detecting treatment-requiring retinopathy of prematurity. Incorporating wide-field digital retinal imaging with telemedicine in standard retinopathy of prematurity management can potentially improve delivery, accessibility, quality and cost of retinopathy of prematurity care.

Retinopathy of prematurity: a study of incidence and risk factors

“…17 A further real world program in Auckland, New Zealand reported 100% sensitivity and 90% specificity in detecting treatment warranted ROP. 18 The incidence of ROP was 28.57% in present study. Incidence of 22.6% reported by Chaudhari S et al and 21.6% by Rao et al was less to ours.…”

Impact of number and quality of retinal images in a telemedicine screening program for ROP: results from the e-ROP study

“…[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] However, few have reported the quality of images obtained. Ells and colleauges 2 reported that 96% of infants had successful imaging sessions, although image quality was not specifically reported.…”

“…1,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Obtaining good quality images is an integral part of the implementation of telemedicine programs to maximize the screening sensitivity. Additionally, a full set of retinal images appears to be necessary to provide the best opportunity to detect RW-ROP.…”

A comprehensive review of diagnostic imaging technologies to evaluate the retina and the optic disk

“…Many groups have studied wide-field imaging for the detection of ROP. These reports, however, typically use different primary outcomes as endpoints and direct comparisons are not suitable [42][43][44][45][46][47][48].…”