AIMS To assess the outcome and complications of patients with advanced retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). METHODS All patients with eyes achieving stage 4 or 5 retinopathy of prematurity were reviewed. Twenty one eyes were diagnosed during ROP screening in maternity hospitals and 10 eyes were of infants transferred for treatment. RESULTS Thirty one eyes of 17 patients were included. Thirteen...

Purpose Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is the leading cause of blindness in children worldwide. This study aimed to determine the incidence and perinatal risk factors for ROP in very low-birth-weight (VLBW) Chinese infants. Methods A retrospective study of the medical records of 504 VLBW infants screened for ROP from 2012 to 2015 was performed in West China Second University Hospital. VLBW ...

Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an important cause preventable blindness in children. It a serious and underestimated complication treatment among preterm low-birth weight babies unless recognized treated early. Objective: Evaluate the different neonatal risk factors for Prematurity. Materials Methods: A ROP prospective screening survey was performed enrolling all premature low-...

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...

Dear Editor, Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an ischemic retinopathy of premature and low birth weight infants. According to the early treatment for retinopathy of prematurity (ETROP) study, 68% of infants with birth weight less than 1,251 grams developed ROP of any degree. 1 ROP is a potentially blinding disorder and approximately 300 children per million live births have at least one eye ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of WINROP (https://winrop.com), an algorithm based on serial measurements of neonatal body weight to predict proliferative retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), in a Korean population of preterm infants. METHODS The records of preterm infants with gestational age less than 32 weeks who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit at Chonnam National Univ...

Blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an increasing problem worldwide as improved levels of neonatal care are provided in countries with developing neonatal intensive care units. The occurrence of ROP blindness varies dramatically with the socioeconomic development of a country. In regions with high levels of neonatal care and adequate resources, ROP blindness is largely restrict...

PURPOSE Ischemic proliferative retinopathy, which occurs as a complication of diabetes mellitus, prematurity, or retinal vein occlusion, is a major cause of blindness worldwide. In addition to retinal neovascularization, it involves retinal degeneration, of which apoptosis is the main cause. A prior report has described the cloning of a novel HIF-1-responsive gene, RTP801, which displays strong...

The hypothesis that both perinatal events and stage of retinal development are important factors in determining the age at onset of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was tested by comparing gestational age at birth with postnatal and postconceptional age when ROP (using ICROP) was first seen. The study population consisted of 207 infants (111 placebo (P) treated, 96 vitamin E (E) treated) who de...

PURPOSE Present technologies are not able to determine which retinas are at risk for the development of neovascularization in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). In this study, the authors evaluated whether a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method could be used to identify differences between control retinas and those that will develop neovascularization in the newborn rat model of retinop...