J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1995 Jul;36(7):1137-1146.

Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity: Six Years' Experience

• Khwarg SI
• Yu YS

Abstract

We report our 6 years' experience of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity(ROP). Hospital records of 85 premature infants who underwent cryotherapy for threshold ROP or prethreshold posterior zone ROP during 1987-93 were reviewed. Among the 145 cryotreated eyes, 124 eyes (85.5%) had favorable outcomes and 21 eyes(14.5%) had unfavorable outcomes. The complication rate following cryotherapy was very low. Refraction at the age of 6 months showed that the incidence of myopia was high and the degree of myopia was significantly higher in the moderate cicatricial ROP group than in the non or mild cicatricial ROP group. These results suggest that cryotherapy for acute stage of ROP is appropriate and refractive changes should be followed-up to detect myopia.

Keyword

Cryotherapy; Myopia; Outcome; Retinopathy of prematurity

MeSH Terms

Cryotherapy*
Hospital Records
Humans
Incidence
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Myopia
Retinopathy of Prematurity*