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NICU care providers take photos of a premature baby's retinas in the NEI-funded e-ROP study of telemedicine for retinopathy of prematurity. Photo credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Telemedicine catches blinding disease in premature babies

Telemedicine is an effective strategy to screen for the potentially blinding disease known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), according to a study funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI).
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Light Exposure During Pregnancy Key to Normal Eye Development

Blood vessels that normally regress in mice before the eyelids open 10 days after birth persist if the mouse fetus receives insufficient light in the womb — showing that the eye needs light to develop during pregnancy.
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Strategy Confirmed to Help Doctors Determine When to Treat Retinopathy of Prematurity

Scientists have shown that through an eye exam, doctors can identify infants who are most likely to benefit from early treatment for a potentially blinding eye condition called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), resulting in better vision for many children
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Early Treatment of Blinding Eye Disease in Infants Can Prevent Severe Vision Loss

An important clinical trial, sponsored by the National Eye Institute(NEI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has provideddoctors with improved prognostic indicators and treatment options forretinopathy of prematurity.
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Oxygen Restrictions Can Be Eased for Premature Infants with Blinding Eye Disease

Modest supplemental oxygen given to premature infants with moderate cases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a potentially blinding eye disorder, may not significantly improve ROP, but definitely does not make it worse, according to researchers funded
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Light Reduction Does Not Affect Blinding Eye Disease in Premature Infants

Researchers supported by the National Eye Institute have determined that light reduction has no effect on the development of a potentially blinding eye disorder in low birthweight infants
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Study Confirms Value Of Treatment To Prevent Blindness In Premature Babies

Follow-up results from a study of premature babies with a potentially blinding condition confirm that a freezing treatment applied to their eyes helps save their sight.
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Freeze Treatment Reduces Blindness in Premature Infants

Briefly freezing a portion of the eye’s surface can protect many premature infants against blindness from retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a disease that causes visual loss in 2,600 infants in the United States annually.

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