AIM To report the Karnataka Internet Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity (KIDROP) program for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening in underserved rural areas using an indigenously developed tele-ROP model. MATERIALS AND METHODS KIDROP currently provides ROP screening and treatment services in three zones and 81 neonatal units in Karnataka, India. Technicians were trained to...

OBJECTIVE To study the barriers to effective screening, early detection and treatment of Retinopathy of Prematurity leading to advanced disease. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary eye care hospital in northern India. PARTICIPANTS 115 babies with bilateral stage 5 ROP identified amongst 354 preterm infants examined over a one year period. METHODS Information regarding gestati...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal disease that principally affects preterm neonates. It is recognized as the leading cause of preventable blindness and visual impairment in paediatric population, the major brunt of the disease affecting relatively immature newborns. An increase in survival of very young preterm infants, due to the advances in neonatology, have subjected them to the ...

Purpose: to evaluate the efficacy of Lucentis for treatment retinopathy prematurity (ROP). Material and methods. 51 infants (102 eyes) with gestational age between 24 33 weeks were given intravitreal injections Lucentis, All patients selected had ROP stages I+, II+, III or III+ in zone 1, stage 2, aggressive posterior ROP. The procedure was performed under general anesthesia; dose, technique nu...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most important causes of childhood blindness worldwide. The trend of ROP in Malaysia was unclear because there was no national registry before 2002. The purpose of this study is to analyze ROP students of different ages in the schools for the blind in Malaysia in order to evaluate the trend of ROP from 1992 to 2001. Data were obtained from a previo...

PURPOSE To evaluate scotopic retinal organization in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) through a study of spatial summation. METHODS Thresholds for a range of stimulus diameters (0.4°-10°) were measured using a two alternative, spatial, forced choice psychophysical procedure. The critical diameter (DCRIT) for complete summation was estimated in subjects with a history of severe ROP (N = 7) and...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of transpupillary diode laser photocoagulation for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) at one institution in Romania. METHODS This retrospective case series included all infants who received indirect diode laser photocoagulation for ROP between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2012. RESULTS The 160 eyes of 83 infants were classified into two ca...

AIMS To investigate the clinical observations that arteriovenous shunts typical of threshold retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) are morphologically different in extremely low birthweight infants weighing less than 1000 g. METHODS An observational case series of six extremely low birthweight infants displaying specific features of threshold retinopathy of prematurity enrolled between 1998 and 20...

Objectives: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vasoproliferative disease that affects premature infants.The purpose the study to identify various maternal and fetal risk factors for ROP categorize babies according severity associated factors. Methods: This cross sectional conducted on 100 infants from May 2021 August 2021. Examination was done by single ophthalmologist specialized screen bab...

Aim To explore the current literature on prenatal inflammation-associated risk factors for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Methods Subjective summary selected experimental and epidemiological publications that support authors’ central hypothesis aetiology ROP begins before birth. Results Based evidence we suggest that, contrary to aetiological models, process development with a prephase in ut...