Frequency and severity of retinopathy of prematurity in a neonatal intensive care unit

Abstract

The ROP incidence reported in developed countries is highly variable: it ranges from 9.3 to 68 %. [12][13][14][15][16][17] There are only few reports on the incidence of ROP in Mexico. In the studies that have been carried out in different centers it ranges from 13.3 to 30 %. [18][19][20][21]

Retinopathy of prematurity: incidence report of outliers based on international screening guidelines

“…The main purpose of the study was to determine how many infants would be left out if we would base our screening program only in AAO/AAP guidelines [4]. The source to determine the threshold of these guidelines comes from industrialized countries but, previews series in Mexico from 2006 to 2008 [6, 7, 11] report ROP patients in newborns > 32 weeks and GA of 2000 g. For this reason the SSA in 2015 increase the threshold to 34 weeks of GA and 1750 g BW.…”