The Incidence and the Results of Active Treatment of Acute Retrolental Fibroplasia

Abstract

Over a four year period three hundred and thirty-nine (339)

The factor of time in retinopathy of prematurity

“…15 Over the next 20 years there were published further anecdotal small case series of photocoagulation or cryotherapy, with conflicting recommendations. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] With this inconclusive scientific evidence, cryotherapy for ROP was not supported in the United States until CRYO-ROP was in full swing. 24 In 1988 CRYO-ROP established cryotherapy as beneficial treatment for ROP, 3 20 years after the first report of treatment, and 46 years from Terry's first published description of the disease.…”