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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY & STRABISMUS
Volume 54, Issue 1, Pages 32-38Publisher
SLACK INC
DOI: 10.3928/01913913-20160831-02
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- Medical Practice Plan at the American University of Beirut
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Purpose: To study ophthalmological outcomes of premature children with no retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and correlate with neurodevelopmental outcomes. Methods: A total of 69 former preterm infants were evaluated at 2 to 7 years of age. Detailed ophthalmologic examinations were performed. Neurodevelopment was assessed using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale and Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Another 69 healthy children served as controls. Results: The 69 preterm children (38 of 69 boys) and 69 controls (38 of 69 boys) had a mean age of 4.9 +/- 1.5 and 4.9 +/- 1.4 years, respectively. Compared to controls, preterm infants had vision impairment of 19% versus 1.4% (P = .001), hyperopia of 87% versus 98.5% (P = .21), myopia of 11% versus 1.4% (P = .017), and astigmatism of 39% versus 30.4% (P = .37). Children with any motor disability tended to have worse vision. Conclusions: In the absence of ROP, hyperopia was more common in infants 32 weeks or older who weighed more than 1,500 g at birth; other vision problems were similar in subgroups. This may represent impending myopia in those younger than 32 weeks weighing less than 1,500 g.
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