80 Years of vision: preventing blindness from retinopathy of prematurity

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the leading yet preventable causes of childhood blindness worldwide. The purpose of this review is to provide a practical template for observational and treatment methods in order to reduce the overall incidence of any ROP and to improve both short-term and...

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Autores principales: Wood, Edward H., Chang, Emmanuel Y., Beck, Kinley, Hadfield, Brandon R., Quinn, Amy R., Harper, Clio Armitage
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group US 2021
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8225510/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41372-021-01015-8
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Sumario:Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the leading yet preventable causes of childhood blindness worldwide. The purpose of this review is to provide a practical template for observational and treatment methods in order to reduce the overall incidence of any ROP and to improve both short-term and long-term outcomes once Type 1 ROP (treatable ROP) develops.

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