Eleven years' experience with retinopathy of prematurity: visual results and contribution of cryoablation. Issue 3 (March 1991)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nissenkorn, I; Ben Sira, I; Kremer, I; Gaton, D D; Krikler, R; Wielunsky, E; Merlob, P
• Is Part Of: British journal of ophthalmology. Volume 75:Issue 3(1991)
• Page Start: 158
• Page End: 159
• Publication Date: 1991-03
• Subjects: Ophthalmology -- Periodicals; 617.7
• DOI: 10.1136/bjo.75.3.158
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0007-1161

Abstract

Abstract : We report our 11 years' experience of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Charts of 624 infants weighing under 1250 g who were admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during 1977-87 were reviewed. Three hundred and eighty nine babies survived, and the total ROP prevalence was 57.5%. Cryotherapy was applied to 35%. Only one case (0.25%) of blindness was detected, and four babies (1%) had a final visual acuity of less than 20/200 in one eye. The complication rate following cryoablation was very low.