J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1995 Apr;36(4):636-642.

Cryotherapy and Myopia in Patients with Retinopathy of Prematurity

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  • 1Department of Ophthalmolgy, School of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

To investigate the relationships between myopia and the extents of avascular retina and cryotherapy in premature infants who were treated by cryotherapy for threshold retinopathy of prematurity(ROP), the authors performed cycloplegic refraction in premature infants at the 6 months of age who had shown a complete regression of ROP without any residua after cryotherapy and evaluated the incidence and degree of myopia according to the extents of avascular retina and cryotherapy. The incidence of myopia was high regardless of the extets of avascular retina and cryotherapy, but the degree of myopia was increased according to the increasing extents of avascular retina and cryotherapy. Therefore, we concluded that the larger the extents of avascular retina and cryotheraty were, the more degree of myopia was developed.

Keyword

Cryotherapy; Myopia; Retinopathy of prematurity

MeSH Terms

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