Background: Eye examination for screening of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), as a painful procedure, causes physiological changes in premature infants. Multisensory stimulation is a non-pharmacological analgesic method which affects physiological measures during painful procedures. Aim: To determine the effect of multisensory stimulation on oxygen saturation in premature infants during eye ex...

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...

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...

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...

Prematurity and preterm stressors severely affect the development of infants born before 37 weeks gestation, with increasing effects seen at earlier gestations. Although mortality rates have declined due to advances in neonatal care, disability rates, especially middle-income settings, continue grow. With MRI imaging technology, there has been a focus on safely brain better understand its disco...

Retinopathy of prematurity is a vasoproliferative retinopathy occurring primarily, but not exclusively, in premature infants. The condition is a major cause of pediatric blindness in developed countries. Although acute retinopathy of prematurity regresses spontaneously for more than 90% of infants, a chronic or late proliferative phase follows in some eyes whereby tractional retinal detachments...

Comprehensive oxygen management, focused on avoiding hyperoxia and repeated episodes of hypoxia-hyperoxia in very low birth weight infants, has been successfully used for the reduction of retinopathy of prematurity. Building on this experience, the Comprehensive Oxygen Management for the Prevention of Retinopathy of Prematurity quality improvement initiative was developed to facilitate the spre...