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¹Ankara Numune Has. 1. Göz Kliniği ABD.
²Ankara Üni. Çocuk Sağ. ve Hast. ABD. To investigate the prevalence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), association between ROP and gestational age (GA), birth weight (BW- oxygen therapy, natural course of the disease, 205 infants whose GA less than 36 weeks, were examined at 4-6 weeks of age postnatally and followed up prospectively. Infants with ROP were examined weekly, without ROP were examined monthly until 6 months of age and thereafter clinically indicated.
Infants' birth weights were between 760-2700 gr. and GA between 25-36 weeks. Rop was noted in 41 eyes of 22 infants (%10). The condition resolved spontaneously in 31 eyes with stage 1-2 ROP. In 4 eyes with stage 3 ROP, ROP regressed in two spontaneously and one after criotherapy. One infant with stage 3 and 4 ROP in either eye was sent to surgery. Stage 5 ROP developed in two infants.
The development of ROP was positively correlated with low BW, GA and the duration of oxygen therapy. Keywords : Retinopathy of prematurity, birth weight, gestational age, oxygen therapy