Acute Retrolental Fibroplasia

Kingham, James D.

doi:10.1001/archopht.1977.04450010041003

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“…It has been suggested that an ophthalmologist could help the pediatrician in oxygen usage by ophthalmcscopic monitoring of the vessel caliber. This is not adequate for evaluation of hyperoxygenation (Kingham 1977). Instead, high risk candidates for RLF with less than 1500 g birth weight and showing, perhaps, also evidence of IRDS syndrome, asphyxia, multiple apnea, hypothermia, pneumothorax, patent ductus arteriosus, ccngestive heart failure or other systemic diseases should have a careful ophthalmoscopic evaluation (Kingham 1977) and treatment with cryosurgery or photocoagulation, when necessary.…”

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Retrolental Fibroplasia

Tarkkanen

Mustonen

1978

Acta Ophthalmologica

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In the period 1956-1974, 31 new cases of retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) were diagnosed at the Helsinki University Eye Hospital. All were alive in 1974. 90% weighed less than 1500 g at birth and the gestational age of less than 30 weeks at birth was present in 85%. All patients had required supplementary oxygen during the first weeks of life. 84% of the eyes had visual acuity of finger counting 1 m or less and when classified according to the corrected visual acuity in the better eye, 71% of the patients were practically blind according to the classification by Rintelen. 81% of the eyes showed one of the cicatricial stages of RLF, III to V, and 45% showed the grade V of the disease. 11% of the eyes showed corneal opacities, 44% a flat or absent anterior chamber, 11% had intraocular pressure of greater than or equal to 30 mmHg and 21% showed lenticular opacities. When the period of the observation was surveyed, it was found that during the latter half of the observation period, twice as many new cases of RLF were born. At a rough estimate it was calculated that in 1956-1974 at least 50 new cases of RLF developed in Finland.

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Retrolental Fibroplasia

Tarkkanen

Mustonen

1978

Acta Ophthalmologica

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“…Kinder mit einem GA < 28 W stieg von 66 in P 1 auf 121 in P 2, aber die ROP-Inzidenz ging von 70,2 auf 27,6 % und ihre OP-Notwendigkeit von 30,9 auf 13,2 % zurück (jeweils p < 0,001 [12], prominente Leiste, extraretinale Vasoproliferationen sowie Traktionsamotiones [13] wurden nach ihrem Abstand zur Papilla nervi optici und ihrer Ausdehnung in Uhrzeiten protokolliert, ebenso Dilatation und Tortuositas der großen Netzhautgefäße [14]. Dadurch war es möglich, die bis 1983 dokumentierten Befunde nachträglich entsprechend der ICROP zu klassifizieren.…”

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Kein Anstieg von Inzidenz, Therapie- und Erblindungsrate der Retinopathia praematurorum in einem universitären Perinatalzentrum Level 1 - eine prospektive Beobachtungsstudie von 1978 - 2007

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Grauel²,

Wauer³

2010

Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd

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“…It is only recently that surgical treatment of the active stages of RLF has been reported. The treatments included argon laser and xenon arc photocoagulation (Oshima et al, 1971;Payne and Patz, 1972;Nagata and Tsuruoka, 1972;Vemura, 1975;Yoshida et al, 1975;Tsumura et al, 1976;Soejima et al, 1976) and cryopexy (Payne and Patz, 1972;Harris, 1976;Kingham, 1977).…”

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