Children with blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity: a population-based study. Perinatal data, neurological and ophthalmological outcome.

• A population-based group of 27 children with total blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), born in Sweden from 1980 to 1990, was examined. They constituted all but two of the total of 29 children with total blindness due to ROP known to the national register of visually impaired children when reviewed from 1980 to 1 January 1995. All children had a gestational age of less than 31 weeks and most had had a complicated perinatal period. The retinal disease was discovered late, most often after it had already progressed to bilateral retinal detachment. Repeated vitreoretinal surgery had been performed in most children, but postoperative visual function did not improve. Three-quarters of the group had major neurological impairment (mental retardation, cerebral palsy, or epilepsy) at age 4 to 14 years. There was an impression that extensive ophthalmological efforts delayed neurodevelopmental assessments and examinations as well as adequate habilitation.

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)

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Adolescent

Birth Weight

Blindness

Complications

Etiology

Surgery

Cerebral Palsy

Complications

Child

Cryotherapy

Epilepsy

Complications

Eye Enucleation

Female

Gestational Age

Glaucoma

Etiology

Humans. Infant

Newborn

Male

Mental Retardation

Complications

Postoperative Complications

Etiology

Registries

Retinopathy of Prematurity

Complications

Epidemiology

Therapy

Retrospective Studies

Sweden

Epidemiology

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