Trends in the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity over a 10-year period
| العنوان: | Trends in the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity over a 10-year period |
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| المؤلفون: | Prudence P. C. Chow, Alvin L. Young, Wilson W K Yip, Julie Y C Lok, Henry H. W. Lau, Mary Ho |
| المصدر: | International Ophthalmology. 39:903-909 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Birth weight, Gestational Age, Prenatal care, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Incidence trends, medicine, Birth Weight, Humans, Retinopathy of Prematurity, Retrospective Studies, Retrospective review, business.industry, Incidence, Incidence (epidemiology), Infant, Newborn, Infant, Gestational age, Retinopathy of prematurity, medicine.disease, eye diseases, Ophthalmology, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Hong Kong, Female, Pediatric ophthalmology, business, Infant, Premature, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| الوصف: | To describe and evaluate the trends in the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity over a 10-year period in a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong. A retrospective review was performed on all preterm infants screened and/or treated for retinopathy of prematurity from January 2006 to December 2015 at Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. Preterm infants with incomplete records or transferred-in from other hospitals/region solely for treatment of ROP were excluded. The incidence of any ROP or Type 1 ROP was analysed with gestational age and birth weight over a 10-year period with consecutive 2-year intervals to evaluate the trends. Of all 754 infants included in the study, 234 (31.0%) patients had any ROP and 34 (4.5%) infants developed Type 1 ROP. The incidence of any ROP demonstrated a statistically significant decreasing trend over the five consecutive 2-year intervals (p = 0.016), but the incidence trend of Type 1 ROP is not statistically significant. No infants weighing more than 1250 g developed Type 1 ROP. We observed a decreasing trend in the incidence of any ROP across the 10-year period in a tertiary hospital in Hong Kong, while the incidence of Type 1 ROP remained stable at 4.5%. The factors leading to the trend were unclear. Improved prenatal care, changing proportion of cases with different birth weight and gestational age, oxygenation level practice in neonatal unit may all contribute to the decreasing trend. Revision of screening criteria may be made according to local experience to maximise cost-effectiveness. |
| تدمد: | 1573-2630 0165-5701 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10792-018-0896-0 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::eb2e400c49256f12fd0cc08602d67159 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-018-0896-0 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....eb2e400c49256f12fd0cc08602d67159 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15732630 01655701 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s10792-018-0896-0 |