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Retinopathy of prematurity: what causes it?
1Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Clinics in Perinatology
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Retinopathy of prematurity continues to be a major cause of morbidity in surviving prematures despite attempts to regulate oxygen. Developing retinal vessels apparently can be disrupted by any of a considerable number of influences. By far the preeminent risk factor is extreme prematurity itself.