Authors: K. Kynkorová 1; H. Skalská 2; E. Pařízková 3; L. Krátká 4; D. Liláková 4; J. Urminský 4 Authors‘ workplace: Dětské oddělení Nemocnice, Liberec1 primář MUDr. M. Zítek Fakulta informatiky a managementu UK, Hradec Králové2 děkan doc. RNDr. J. Hynek, PhD., MBA Dětská klinika Fakultní nemocnice, Hradec Králové3 přednostka doc. MUDr. E. Pařízková, CSc. Oční klinika F Published in: Čes-slov Pediat 2004; (10): 508-512. Category:
The aim of this retrospective study was to identify incidence rate of retinopathy (ROP) in VLBW infants inperinatology center and to describe factors related to grade III-V ROP among those infants.Methods: Authors studied retrospectively 333 infants with birth weight less than 1500 g hospitalized at NICU,Department of Pediatrics of Teaching Hospital in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) between 1997 and 2001.Results: ROP grade III-V was detected in 35 infants (10.5 %) during hospitalization, on 20 of them (58.8 %)cryoretinopexy was performed. On discharge ROP grade III-V was identified in 20 infants (6 %). High grades ofROP were associated with amount of blood transfused, number of transfusions more than two and oxygendependency longer than 5 days.Authors did not find association with transfusion velocity or oxygen concentrations.Conclusions: Results correspond to those of recently published studies. However, before the overall outcome ofVLBW infants can be evaluated, the results of a long-term follow-up should be taken into consideration.
Key words: retinopathy of prematurity, very low birth weight infants (VLBW)
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