Results of long-term observation of extremely premature babies with retinopathy

Kogoleva L.V.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Katargina L.A.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

ORCID: 0000-0002-4857-0374

Sudovskaya T.V.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Kruglova T.B.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Bobrovskaya Yu.A.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Results of long-term observation of extremely premature babies with retinopathy

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Kogoleva L.V., Katargina L.A., Sudovskaya T.V., Kruglova T.B., Bobrovskaya Yu.A.

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Journal: Russian Annals of Ophthalmology. 2020;136(5): 39‑45

DOI: 10.17116/oftalma202013605139

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Kogoleva LV, Katargina LA, Sudovskaya TV, Kruglova TB, Bobrovskaya YuA. Results of long-term observation of extremely premature babies with retinopathy. Russian Annals of Ophthalmology. 2020;136(5):39‑45. (In Russ.)
https://doi.org/10.17116/oftalma202013605139

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PURPOSE

To study the long-term clinical and functional outcomes of retinopathy in extremely premature infants.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

The study included 42 patients (84 eyes) with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) at the age of 9—18 years. All patients underwent comprehensive ophthalmological examination, including morphometric (OCT), functional (ERG) and psycho-physical (computer perimetry) methods.

RESULTS

A high occurrence of low vision (67%) was revealed in extremely premature children with ROP during school years and adolescence, which depended on the severity of active ROP and the formation of pronounced residual changes in the fundus during the cicatricial phase of the disease, a high occurrence of refractive errors (92%), including high degree myopia (46%), late complications that develop with ROP of any degree (68%), impaired retinal electrogenesis — due to both ROP and deep morphological and functional immaturity of the retina.

CONCLUSION

Patients with any degree of cicatricial ROP born in the early stages of gestation and with extremely low body weight need regular complex ophthalmologic examination and lifelong follow-up.

Keywords:

cicatricial retinopathy of premature infants

visual functions

deeply premature infants

complications

Authors:

Kogoleva L.V.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Katargina L.A.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

ORCID: 0000-0002-4857-0374

Sudovskaya T.V.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Kruglova T.B.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Bobrovskaya Yu.A.

Helmholtz National Medical Research Center of Eye Diseases

Received:

14.10.2019

Accepted:

29.10.2019

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