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RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA IN SWEDEN General Survey and Selected Study on Patients born in 1960–1966
Author(s) -
SVEDBERGH BJÖURN,
LINDSTETD EVA
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1973.tb08138.x
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , oxygen therapy , gestational age , hypoxia (environmental) , birth weight , pregnancy , surgery , oxygen , anesthesia , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , biology , optics , genetics
Summary In Sweden 274 cases of retrolental fibroplasia have been reported between 1945 and 1966. After a dramatic decrease in incidence since 1953, there has been a slight increase between 1960 and 1966. Thus 23 patients with irreversible retrolental fibroplasia during this latter period as a rule were of very low birth weight and gestational age; received oxygen for more than 1 week and in maximum concentrations below 40% in breathing air in the incubator. Oxygen was partly administered by funnel to half the patients. One patient history indicated a pathogenetic connection with intra‐uterine hypoxia. Aspects of pathophysiology, oxygen therapy and its control are discussed.