Development of vision in retinopathy of prematurity.
Serial measures (range, two to eight) of preferential-looking grating acuities of 52 infants with retinopathy of prematurity were made. Group 1 patients (n = 11), who had little or no macular displacement, had normal preferential-looking acuity except for two who had mild acuity deficits. None of the group 2 patients (n = 12), who had dragged maculas, ever had normal acuity. On the average, their acuities, which ranged from 1 to 6 octaves less than normal, gradually increased at a rate not significantly different from normal. Group 3 patients (n = 29), who had undergone open-sky vitrectomy, had significantly lower acuity despite reattachment of the retina.
Katsumi
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Clinical Research Unit, Eye Research Institute, Boston, MA 02114.
Mehta
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Matsui
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Tetsuka
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Hirose
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D000375:Aging; D001724:Birth Weight; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011601:Psychophysics; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014821:Vitrectomy