‘Comfort care techniques’ reduce pain and anxiety associated with screening for ROP? A randomised controlled trial in 40 infants (O’Sullivan, 2010) used swaddling in the control group (n=20), who also received 0.2 ml of sterile water given by mouth using a syringe and a soother. The intervention group (n=20) were also swaddled, and received 0.2 ml of sucrose 24% given by mouth using a syringe a...

Identification of type 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) relies heavily on the presence of characteristics of plus disease, especially tortuosity. However, a relatively infrequent subset of eyes with type 1 ROP, eyes with zone 1, stage 3 ROP without plus disease, is included in treatment indications. We examined if posterior pole vessel width is associated with type 1 ROP in a subset of eyes w...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a complex disease characterized by an aberrant developmental retinal angiogenesis in preterm infants and can carry significant visual morbidity, including retinal detachment and blindness. Though large scale, randomized clinical trials have improved our understanding of the pathophysiology and progression of the disease, the management of ROP remains a challe...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a leading cause blindness in premature infants worldwide, particularly developing countries. In this research, we propose Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) and image processing-based approach for the automatic detection retinal features, including optical disc (OD) blood vessels (BV), as well disease classification using rule-based method ROP patients....

An attempt was made to elucidate the association between retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and neurological disorders in infants of very low birth weight. In this retrospective study, 1081 Japanese children weighing less than 1500 g at birth were classified into four subgroups according to birth weight. In each subgroup, the association among cerebral palsy (CP) or mental retardation (MR) and RO...

Sum mary Aim: To report outcomes of diode laser photocoagulation for zone 1 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a tertiary university clinic. Material and Method: The records of 452 eyes of 257 preterm infants who were seen in retina division of Department of Ophthalmology, Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine between June 2007 and December 2010 and subsequently were diagnosed as zone 1 prethreshold ...

Several countries have national guidelines indicating which babies should be screened. These usually include a combination of birth weight (BW) and gestational age (GA). Some countries, such as the United States of America, include additional 'sickness criteria' alongside BW and GA. In neonatal units providing very high quality care, only the most preterm babies are at risk of developing ROP an...

PURPOSE To assess scotopic background adaptation in subjects with a history of preterm birth and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Retinopathy of prematurity is known to have long-term effects on rod photoreceptor and rod mediated postreceptor retinal function. METHODS Rod-mediated thresholds for detection of 3° diameter, 50 ms stimuli presented 20° from fixation were measured using a spatial...