INTRODUCTION Vitreous hemorrhage associated with retinopathy of prematurity is often seen in childhood, but adult onset without retinal break is rare. We describe a case of recurrent vitreous hemorrhage associated with regressed retinopathy of prematurity in a 47-year-old patient. CASE PRESENTATION A 47-year-old Japanese woman with a history of retinopathy of prematurity presented with a visu...

PURPOSE To describe morphological features of the macula in patients with retinopathy of prematurity. METHODS Twelve premature babies with retinopathy of prematurity grades I, II and III underwent dilated fundus examination and optical coherence tomography evaluation. RESULTS In all thirteen eyes of the twelve premature patients optical coherence tomography revealed a condensed retinal pigm...

OCULAR manifestations of polyarteritis nodosa are well recognized. Changes in the choroidal, ciliary, orbital, and retinal vessels have all been described (Duke-Elder and Dobree, 1967). Hitherto, the retinopathy of this condition has been described on the basis of ophthalmoscopic and pathological appearances. The technique of fluorescein fundus photography is particularly well suited to the inv...

ABSTRACT Prematurity is a major cause morbidity and mortality in developing countries. The factors associated with preterm births in Warri over an eight year period include, low socioeconomic class, place of antenatal care, antenatal complications notably hypertension in pregnancy, fever, anaemia and bleeding in pregnancy. Other associated factors include multiple gestations, previous history o...

Prematurity has traditionally been connected with thrombocytopenia, although this is unlikely to be associated with prematurity itself but rather with serious illnesses in such infants. Platelet counts were measured in 117 healthy preterm infants with birthweights less than 2000 g, who were followed up from 2 weeks to 6 months. In this series the platelet counts were high compared with those in...

Tissue samples from four progressive ethmoid hematomas were positive for expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), also known as vascular permeability factor. VEGF is known to have an important role in tumor biology, including but not limited to angiogenesis, malignant ascites, and the proliferative retinopathies. Further study of its activity in ethmoid hematoma could provide ne...

Apnea of prematurity is one of the most common diagnoses in the NICU. Despite the frequency of apnea of prematurity, it is unknown whether recurrent apnea, bradycardia, and hypoxemia in preterm infants are harmful. Research into the development of respiratory control in immature animals and preterm infants has facilitated our understanding of the pathogenesis and treatment of apnea of prematuri...