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Ocular Complications in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

A total of 187 very low birth weight infants (weighing <1500 g at birth), 48 of whom suffered from retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), were examined. A higher incidence of strabismus was found in those with ROP (23%) than in those without ROP (9%). Amblyopia was present in 6% of those infants with and in only 1.4% of those without ROP. Myopia was found in 50% of the ROP group as compared with 15% in the non-ROP group. Astigmatism and anisometropia were common only in those with ROP, but hypermetropia was equally represented in both groups.

Comment: With the survival rate of very low birth weight infants progressively increasing, pediatricians are seeing more of these infants in their offices.






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