Open AccessOcular outcomes and comorbidities in preterm infants enrolled for retinopathy of prematurity screening: A cohort study from western India
Author(s) -
Sucheta Kulkarni,
Mukti Shah,
Kuldeep Dole,
Sudhir Taras,
Rahul Deshpande,
Madan Deshpande
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
oman journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 0974-7842
pISSN - 0974-620X
DOI - 10.4103/ojo.ojo_221_2017
Subject(s) - medicine , retinopathy of prematurity , childhood blindness , pediatrics , relative risk , cohort , visual impairment , population , cohort study , blindness , ophthalmology , gestational age , optometry , pregnancy , confidence interval , genetics , environmental health , psychiatry , biology
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is emerging as an important cause of childhood blindness in middle-income countries such as India. Although blindness can be prevented in most cases with timely screening and treatment, certain ocular comorbidities can lead to visual impairment. We evaluated and compared 1-year visual, refractive, and structural outcomes and comorbidities in three subsets of preterm infants enrolled for screening of ROP.