NATURAL HISTORY OF RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY

Abstract

Our hospital-based study reveals an earlier postmenstrual age of developing ROP in this Asian population than in the Early Treatment for ROP study. Infants with birth weight over 1,250 g could still develop treatment-requiring ROP. Suboptimal oxygen control, different genetic dispositions among different races, inconsistencies in ROP diagnosis, and earlier screening might account for such a phenomenon.