1328 RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY: ADMINISTRATION OF VITAMIN E TO MITIGATE AGAINST SEVERE DISEASE
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Maternal preeclampsia protects preterm infants against severe retinopathy of prematurity.
OBJECTIVE To study the influence of maternal preeclampsia on the occurrence of retinopathy of prematurity. STUDY DESIGN A prospective cohort study of 324 preterm neonates with birth weight ≤ 1500 g and gestational age ≤ 32 weeks. Multiple maternal and perinatal factors were analyzed for association and confounding by multiple logistic regression analysis. RESULTS Mean birth weight was 1128 ...
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it has been estimated that each year 50,000 newborns born prematurely and underweight and are candidates to have retinopathy of prematurity (rop) .1 in the developing countries where we see most of the blind children, rop is accused to be one of the essential causes of blindness.2 rop and its consequences (impaired vision and blindness) could be prevented in most cases by an early ocular examin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198104001-01357