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ArticleScientific reports2022

Effect of foveal morphology on visual acuity in 4-6-year-old children with retinopathy of prematurity: a J-CREST study.

Tomo Nishi, Tetsuo Ueda, Yuutaro Mizusawa, Kayo Shinomiya, Yoshinori Mitamura, Naoki Kimura, Fumi Gomi, Akiko Miki, Makoto Nakamura, Takamasa Kinoshita and 5 more

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Assessing visual and refractive outcomes of subretinal fluid detected by handheld swept-source optical coherence tomography in full-term newborns.Journal of AAPOS : the official publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus · 2026
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15 authors.

Tomo NishiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nara Medical University, 840 Kashihara City, Nara, 634-8522, Japan. tomon@naramed-u.ac.jp.
Tetsuo UedaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nara Medical University, 840 Kashihara City, Nara, 634-8522, Japan.
Yuutaro MizusawaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nara Medical University, 840 Kashihara City, Nara, 634-8522, Japan.
Kayo ShinomiyaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.
Yoshinori MitamuraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.
Naoki KimuraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Fumi GomiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Akiko MikiDivision of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Makoto NakamuraDivision of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Takamasa KinoshitaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Sapporo City General Hospital, Sapporo, Japan.
Shumpei ObataDepartment of Ophthalmology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
Masahito OhjiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
Takuya TsujiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan.
Shigeo YoshidaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan.
Nahoko OgataDepartment of Ophthalmology, Nara Medical University, 840 Kashihara City, Nara, 634-8522, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Laser therapy is the most effective treatment considered for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). We compared the foveal morphology of the retina in eyes with a history of ROP to that of full-term children. This cross-sectional comparative study included 74 patients with a history of ROP, aged 4-6 years. Among them, 41 underwent laser treatment for ROP. The clinical findings and retinal morphology in these patients were compared to that of 33 patients who had spontaneous ROP regression and 30 age-matched full-term controls. All the patients with ROP had 20/40 or better best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA). The foveal thickness was significantly thicker in laser-treated ROP eyes than in regressed ROP eyes and controls. The outer nuclear layer was significantly thicker, and the inner segment (IS) of the photoreceptors and the inner retinal layer were significantly thicker in the laser-treated ROP eyes than that in the control eyes. In the patients with ROP and controls, better BCVA was associated positively with deeper foveal depression, which was associated with a later gestational age. Our results suggest that prematurity and laser treatment affect the foveal morphology and BCVA.

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Retinopathy of PrematurityChildCross-Sectional StudiesFovea CentralisGestational AgeHumansInfant, NewbornTomography, Optical CoherenceVisual Acuity

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PMID36180773
PMCPMC9525252

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