Wednesday, April 14, 2010

ROP and Weight Gain!!!

http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/4/443
To validate longitudinal postnatal weight gain as a method for predicting severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a US cohort.
Harvard and Sweden researchers showed that postnatal weight gain can predict severe ROP and validates WINROP study.
The results showed A high-risk alarm occurred in 81 infants (25.5%) and detected all infants who developed severe ROP a median of 9 weeks before diagnosis. The remaining infants received no alarm or a low-risk alarm. None of these infants developed more than mild ROP.

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