Myopia dominance in preterm infants without and with retinopathy of prematurity: Indian Twin Cities ROP study (ITCROPS) report number 15.

Swapnil ThakurSeema KumariVishwa SanghaviAkash BelenjeManjushree BhateTapas Ranjan PadhiSubhadra JalaliPavan Kumar Verkicharla

Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2024)

Myopia was found to be more prevalent in preterm infants in general, and more in the presence of ROP. Preterm infants without or with any form of ROP, particularly those with severe form of ROP and those who received treatment require meticulous periodic refractive error assessment.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
low birth weight
early onset
combination therapy
smoking cessation