دورية أكاديمية
Retinopathy of prematurity: is it time to change screening limits in Lithuania? ; Neišnešiotų naujagimių retinopatija : ar jau laikas keisti atrankos limitus?
| العنوان: | Retinopathy of prematurity: is it time to change screening limits in Lithuania? ; Neišnešiotų naujagimių retinopatija : ar jau laikas keisti atrankos limitus? |
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| المؤلفون: | Sirtautienė, Rasa, Bagdonienė, Rasa |
| المصدر: | Acta medica Lituanica, 2006, Vol. 13, no. 3, p. 161-164 ; ISSN 1392-0138 |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| المجموعة: | LAEI VL (Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics Virtual Library) / LAEI VB (Lietuvos agrarinės ekonomikos institutasvirtualią biblioteką) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), Screening, Prevention of blindness, Gestational age (GA), Birth weight (BW), Postconceptional age (PA), Chronological age (CA), info:eu-repo/classification/udc/617 |
| الوصف: | Background: National guidelines of screening for Retinopathy of prematurity in Lithuania were published in 1998. The upper limits were gestational age 35 weeks and / or birth weight 2500 g. The aim of the study was to determine the possibility of restricting the inclusion criteria for screening. Materials and methods: The study cohort comprised 664 prematures of gestational age at birth ≤ 35 weeks and / or birth weight ≤ 2500 g, hospitalized to Vilnius University Children’s Hospital in the period 1 of January 2000 – 31 of December 2002. Retinopathy of prematurity was found in 148 (22.3%) infants; 65 infants (9.8%) reached the threshold and underwent cryotherapy and / or laser therapy. Results: All cases of threshold ROP were confined to infants with gestational age ≤ 33 weeks or birth weight ≤ 1920 g. Restricting the inclusion criteria for screening to ≤ 1500 g would only have reduced the total number of screenings and could have allowed us to miss 7 of our threshold cases. If ROP screening is limited to infants with GA of ≤ 28 weeks, 20 infants (30.8 %) would not have been screened and would not have been treated in 2000–2002 years. Conclusions: Based on our results, it seems appropriate to include into the screening program all infants with gestational age ≤ 33 weeks and / or birth weight ≤ 2000 g. At the moment, the worldwide recommendations of screening for ROP are still not suitable in our country. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | Lithuanian English |
| العلاقة: | http://lmavb.oai.elaba.lt/documents/6212024.pdfTest; http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB6212024&prefLang=en_USTest |
| الإتاحة: | http://lmavb.oai.elaba.lt/documents/6212024.pdfTest http://lmavb.lvb.lt/LMAVB:ELABAPDB6212024&prefLang=en_USTest |
| حقوق: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B86AE3F3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |