AGGRESSIVE POSTERIOR RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY CLASSIFICATION

Abstract

Based on dynamic monitoring of 163 premature infants (326 eyes) with aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), digital retinoscopy and computer morphometry the disease clinical and morphometric features were revealed and systematized, and their consecutive replacement was fixed. As a result the separate classification of aggressive posterior disease was worked up. In aggressive posterior ROP course the next consecutive stages were marked out: subclinical, early clinical appearances stage, manifestation stage, advanced, far-advanced and terminal stages. The peculiarity of early clinical appearances stage and manifestation stage is the presence of such course types: favorable and unfavorable.

Keywords

• retinopathy of prematurity
• aggressive posterior disease
• classification