retinopathy of prematurity and blood transfusion protocols

Sucking improvement following blood transfusion for anemia of prematurity.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether correction of anemia of prematurity by packed red blood cell transfusion improves sucking. DESIGN Nonexperimental intervention study. SETTING Neonatal intensive care unit of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, between July 23, 2006, and December 16, 2007. PATIENTS Thirty-six neonates at a gestational age of 34 weeks or younger, feeding orally, wh...

Retinopathy of Prematurity

The incidence of ROP varies with birth weight but it has been reported to be approximately 50-70% in infants whose weight is less than 1250g at birth. The more premature the infant, the more likely ROP is to develop [1]. Furthermore, an observational study from United Kingdom found that the birth weight of infants from highly developed countries was 737-763g compared with 903-1527g in less-deve...

Classifying retinopathy of prematurity

It is important to classify retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in each eye, at each screening session. Doing so makes it possible to screen babies consistently and to make decisions about whether further screening is required and when, or whether laser treatment or surgical management is needed. The International Committee for the Classification of ROP1 has classified it using the following crite...

Retinopathy of prematurity.

With improved survival of very low birth infants in India, Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is emerging as a significant problem. The most important risk factor in the pathogenesis of ROP is prematurity. Other factors like, problems with oxygenation frequent blood transfusions, sepsis and apnea have also been implicated in the causation of ROP. Essentially asymptomatic in the initial stages, a ...

[Retinopathy of prematurity].

[Retinopathy of prematurity].

This review summarizes the knowledge and highlights recent advances in clinical research of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). This disease is still important, because improvements in neonatal intensive care during the last years have increased the survival of the most immature newborns, but did not diminish the ROP frequency. Ophthalmologic screening and, if applicable, laser treatment at the o...