ArticleMiddle East African journal of ophthalmology
Visual Outcome of Preterm Infants Screened in a Tertiary Care Hospital.
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- Prevalence and associated risk factors of visual impairment in school children: mHealth-based vision screening in government schools of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence and causes of ocular disorders and visual impairment among preterm children in Ethiopia.BMJ paediatrics open · 2024Article
- Myopia in India.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
- Unmet Need for ROP Screening in Peripheral Rural Areas.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Vision Development Differences between Slow and Fast Motor Development in Typical Developing Toddlers: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study is to assess the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in preterm infants and to compare the visual outcomes in babies with and without ROP. MATERIALS AND
methodsA consecutive cohort of 812 preterm babies were recruited with gestational age ≤32 weeks and or birth weight ≤1500 g. The outcome was assessed at the end of 15 months by determining fixation behavior, cycloplegic refraction, and vision by Cardiff cards. Incidence of visual outcomes with 95% confidence limits and relative risks were estimated. Chi-squared test and
resultsThe incidence of ROP was 25%. The incidence of myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, and strabismus were 15.8% (14.3-17.3), 6% (5.1-7.1), 55.6% (53.6-57.7), and 1.8% (1.4%-2.5%), respectively, in the cohort. The most common refractive error in terms of spherical equivalence was myopia (19.8% in ROP and 14.4% in non-ROP group). The mean visual acuity measured by Cardiff Acuity cards was 0.282 and 0.27 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution units (right eye) and 0.293 and 0.277 (left eye) in patients with and without ROP, respectively. Strabismus was present in 5% of ROP group and 0.8% of non-ROP group babies. Babies with ROP had six times (risk ratio-6.02; 95% confidence interval 2.8-12.8) higher chance of developing strabismus than those without ROP.
conclusionsOphthalmological morbidities in premature infants such as refractive errors and strabismus are high in addition to complications like ROP. The incidence of these conditions is more in infants with ROP when compared to non-ROP group.
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