TY - JOUR T1 - Trends in the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity in Lothian, south-east Scotland, from 1990 to 2009 JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F310 LP - F311 DO - 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2011-301464 VL - 97 IS - 4 AU - Shi Zhuan Tan AU - Catharine Dhaliwal AU - Julie-Clare Becher AU - Brian Fleck Y1 - 2012/07/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/97/4/F310.abstract N2 - Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a disorder of retinal vascular development in premature infants and is a major cause of childhood blindness worldwide. Dhaliwal et al conducted a prospective, population-based study looking at the incidence of ROP in the Lothian region of south-east Scotland from 1990 to 2004 and found the following1: (1) Significant increase in survival of infants with birth weight <1500 g and/or gestational age <32 weeks(2) Significant reduction in the number of infants treated for ROP(3) Reduction in the incidence of any degree of ROP and severe (stage 3 or greater) ROP although both did not reach statistical significance.Treatment criteria for ROP have changed in Lothian … ER -