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Premature infants without ROP still at risk for ocular pathology
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Ocular pathology may be missed in premature infants with no or mild retinopathy of prematurity who are not followed up beyond 12 months of age, according to a scientific poster presented here at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting. Christine Law, MD, and colleagues from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conducted a retrospective consecutive cohort study of infants born at gestational age less than 37 weeks and followed up for 6 months or more. Incidence and age at diagnosis of strabismus, nystagmus, and high (Read more...)