title: Eleven years' experience with retinopathy of prematurity: visual results and contribution of cryoablation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nissenkorn
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ben Sira
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kremer
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Gaton
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Krikler
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wielunsky
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Merlob
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003452:Cryosurgery / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014792:Visual Acuity