Cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity: a histopathologic comparison of a treated and untreated eye.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-1994
Abstract
A female infant born at 28 weeks gestational age, weighing 570 g, developed retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) which progressed to threshold disease in one eye. Transscleral cryotherapy of the avascular peripheral retina resulted in complete clinical regression of the active ROP in that eye. The fellow eye continued to manifest subthreshold ROP. Histopathologic findings included a striking reduction of the cryotreated retina to a thin glial scar, with associated retinal pigment epithelium atrophy, denudation of Bruch's membrane, and extensive atrophy of the underlying choroidal vasculature, predominantly the choriocapillaris.
Volume
25
Issue
1
First Page
38
Last Page
41
ISSN
0022-023X
Published In/Presented At
Vrabec, T. R., McNamara, J. A., Eagle, R. C., Jr, & Tasman, W. (1994). Cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity: a histopathologic comparison of a treated and untreated eye. Ophthalmic surgery, 25(1), 38–41.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
8152731
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article