PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - I Nissenkorn
AU  - I Ben Sira
AU  - I Kremer
AU  - D D Gaton
AU  - R Krikler
AU  - E Wielunsky
AU  - P Merlob
TI  - Eleven years' experience with retinopathy of prematurity: visual results and contribution of cryoablation.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.75.3.158
DP  - 1991 Mar 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 158--159
VI  - 75
IP  - 3
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/75/3/158.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/75/3/158.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1991 Mar 01; 75
AB  - We report our 11 years' experience of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Charts of 624 infants weighing under 1250 g who were admitted to our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during 1977-87 were reviewed. Three hundred and eighty nine babies survived, and the total ROP prevalence was 57.5%. Cryotherapy was applied to 35%. Only one case (0.25%) of blindness was detected, and four babies (1%) had a final visual acuity of less than 20/200 in one eye. The complication rate following cryoablation was very low.