Describing Retinopathy of Prematurity: Current Limitations and New Challenges
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Retinopathy of prematurity: future vision and challenges.
I read with interest the paper by Chaudhari, et al.(1) in the March 2009 issue of Indian Pediatrics and would like to congratulate the authors for broaching and researching on retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Oxygen administration, septicemia and apnea were found to be the significant risk factors reported. This is in agreement with a retrospective study from Pakistan at a tertiary care centre...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ophthalmology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0161-6420
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2018.12.034