Etiology of the Retinopathy of Prematurity: a Progress Report

Since the publication in 1981 of an overview of our previous 15 years' research into the genesis of the retinopathy of prematurity, the incidence of this disease has continued to rise as the survival rates of increasingly premature infants have risen. Since then, we have completed a study of the morphology of the developing retinal vasculature that lends support to the hypothesis described in that overview and have turned our attention to the possible role of the choroidal circulation in the retinopathy of prematurity. This article very briefly summarizes this more recent work.