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THE INCIDENCE AND THE RESULTS OF ACTIVE TREATMENT OF ACUTE RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA
Author(s) -
STARK D. J.,
MANNING L. M.,
LENTON L.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of opthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 0310-1177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1982.tb00373.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , physics , optics
Over a four year period three hundred and thirty‐nine (339) “at risk” premature neonates were examined, and sixty‐five (65) cases of acute R.L.F. (19%) were detected. The overall observed incidence of acute R.L.F. in those surviving babies under 1000 gms birthweight was 47%, in those whose birthweight was 1001–1500 gms the incidence was 22%. The incidence of acute R.L.F., in those babies whose birthweight was greater than 1501 ‐2000 gms was 4.0%. Most of the cases of acute R.L.F. that were detected, occurred in those infants with a birth weight less than 1500 gms. Seventy‐eight per cent (78%) of these cases of acute R.L.F. were mild and resolved spontaneously. Severe cases occurred only in those babies with a very low birthweight (<1100 gms). Active treatment with cryopexy or photocoagulation was undertaken in 15 eyes of 9 infants. Thirteen (13) of the fifteen (15) eyes treated resolved, and there were no blind patients in the series at the end of the study.19%