Retinopathy of prematurity and risk factors: a prospective cohort study
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Retinopathy of prematurity and risk factors: a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND Increased survival of extremely low birth infants due to advances in antenatal and neonatal care has resulted in a population of infants at high risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Therapeutic interventions include the use of antenatal and postnatal steroids however, their effects on the severity of ROP is in dispute. In addition, it has not been investigated whether...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pediatrics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1471-2431
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-5-18