A pilot study on cryotherapy and active retinopathy of prematurity.
Seventeen patients with symmetrical stage 3 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and plus disease were assign to cryotherapy in one eye. Treatment was confined to the avascular zone of retina. Twelve treated eyes (71%) improved and 10 untreated eyes (59%) became worse. However, in only five patients did the treated eye improve and the untreated eye become worse, a number too small to be statistically significant.
D001724:Birth Weight; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000601:surgery*; D012306:Risk; D014822:Vitreous Body