PMID: 18714497Aug 22, 2008Paper

Laser photocoagulation in retinopathy of prematurity--preliminary results

Oftalmologia
Simona TăluMonica Popa

Abstract

The present study aims to reveal, on one hand, the efficiency of the laser photocoagulation in the Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) and, on the other one, to answer two questions: 1. Why do some ROPs still go wrong, in spite of laser therapy? 2. What can we do about it? A retrospective study has been performed, including the 21 prematurely newborns that have been treated by laser photocoagulation, for ROP, in Cluj-Napoca, between April 2006-September 2007. The photocoagulation has been carried out with a diode laser fixed on an indirect ophthalmoscope, under sedation, in the Neonatology Department of the County Clinical Hospital from Cluj. Globally, the results of the laser treatment are the following: favourable outcome (regression of ROP)--in 32 eyes (84.21%) and unfavourable outcome--in 6 eyes (15.79%). Laser photocoagulation has been performed in 29 eyes in stage III zone 2 and produced the regression of ROP in 27 of them (93. 10%). ROP zone I has been identified and treated in 3 cases, of which-two had a favourable evolution (66.66%), and one has progressed to stage IV (33.33%). ROP in stage IVa has been identified in 3 cases (5 eyes). The laser photocoagulation has been possible only in 3 eyes, with favourable evolution i...Continue Reading

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