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Challenge Accepted: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) During COVID-19

The World Health Organization has identified retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) as one of the emerging causes of preventable childhood blindness in developing and middle-income countries. It is becoming a major public health problem in developing countries like India and China. ROP blindness in India...

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Autores principales: Sahu, Sandip K, Mishra, Priyadarshini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36968848
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35260
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description The World Health Organization has identified retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) as one of the emerging causes of preventable childhood blindness in developing and middle-income countries. It is becoming a major public health problem in developing countries like India and China. ROP blindness in India is increasing due to the highest number of preterm births in the world, suboptimal neonatal care, lack of awareness, screening programs and treatment not in place, and increasing numbers of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and special newborn care units (SNCUs) opening all over the country without appropriate ophthalmic care. On top of it, heavier and late preterm babies are developing severe ROP due to the variable quality of neonatal services and insufficient optimal eye care in the NICU and SNCU. The situation become more precarious during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and it became a challenge to motivate health workers and parents to keep the screening and treatment of ROP babies in place.
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spelling pubmed-100354592023-03-24 Challenge Accepted: Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) During COVID-19 Sahu, Sandip K Mishra, Priyadarshini Cureus Ophthalmology The World Health Organization has identified retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) as one of the emerging causes of preventable childhood blindness in developing and middle-income countries. It is becoming a major public health problem in developing countries like India and China. ROP blindness in India is increasing due to the highest number of preterm births in the world, suboptimal neonatal care, lack of awareness, screening programs and treatment not in place, and increasing numbers of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and special newborn care units (SNCUs) opening all over the country without appropriate ophthalmic care. On top of it, heavier and late preterm babies are developing severe ROP due to the variable quality of neonatal services and insufficient optimal eye care in the NICU and SNCU. The situation become more precarious during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and it became a challenge to motivate health workers and parents to keep the screening and treatment of ROP babies in place. Cureus 2023-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10035459/ /pubmed/36968848 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35260 Text en Copyright © 2023, Sahu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035459/
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