Editorial
Editorial: Preventing blindness in premature infants
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.338(22), pp.1620-1621
05/28/1998
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199805283382210
PMID: 9603802
Abstract
In 1984 the Committee for the Classification of Retinopathy of Prematurity, a group of ophthalmologists from 11 countries, established a standard nomenclature and described the natural history of the active disease.2 Using indirect ophthalmoscopy, they documented that if retinal vascularization does not proceed normally, the aberrant vessels progress through well-defined stages, localized in specific zones of the retina. Blinding neovascular retinopathies, such as those due to diabetes mellitus and sickle cell disease, had previously been shown to regress after cryotherapy or laser ablation of the ischemic retina, which secretes angiogenic factors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Editorial: Preventing blindness in premature infants
- Creators
- Arlene V Drack
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Publication Details
- The New England journal of medicine, Vol.338(22), pp.1620-1621
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM199805283382210
- PMID
- 9603802
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/28/1998
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984180936902771
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