The decreasing incidence and severity of retinopathy of prematurity

Bullard, Steven R.; Donahue, Sean P.; Feman, Stephen S.; Sinatra, Robbin B.; Walsh, William F.

doi:10.1016/s1091-8531(99)70094-7

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“…1 Our lower incidence may reflect institutional variation, differences in calculating EGA, or an overall decrease in severe ROP. 19 This could possibly be related to alterations in target oxygen saturation 20,21 or other changes in neonatal care.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Retinopathy of prematurity in extremely premature infants

Teed

Saunders

2009

Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and

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Retinopathy of prematurity in extremely premature infants

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Saunders

2009

Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and

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“…[22][23][24] This decrease has been attributed to improved perinatal care, as well as to improved care of the premature infant. Laser treatment is safer and more effective than cryotherapy, 2 and is now being used earlier and by more ophthalmologists, potentially reducing the number of eyes reaching stage 5 ROP.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anatomical and Visual Results of Vitreoretinal Surgery for Stage 5 Retinopathy of Prematurity

Cusick¹,

M²,

Agrón³

et al. 2006

Retina

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Surgery resulted in anatomical success for approximately one third of infant eyes with stage 5 ROP, and only a minority of eyes (8 of 183) achieved visual acuity better than 5/200. However, some initially successfully attached retinas redetached. Although this study is limited by follow-up and may represent a group of patients with a more vascularly active disease state due to the low proportion of patients with prior peripheral ablation, this cohort of infants provides results against which future interventions may be compared.

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“…5 . However,subsequent studies conducted during the past 15 years on the incidence of ROP have shown differing results, some indicating a decrease in the incidence of ROP and others suggesting no change [9][10][11][12] . Since the time CRYOROP study, there are advances in neonatal care, decreases in mortality rates and generation of knowledge that several systemic diseases other than prematurity affect ROP.Therefofore incidence and severity of ROP showed variation.…”

Section: Epidemiologymentioning

confidence: 98%