Time to regain birth weight - a marker to predict the severity of retinopathy of prematurity?

• Main Authors: Ajay Anvekar (Author), Sam Athikarisamy (Author), Shripada Rao (Author), Andy Gill (Author), Elizabeth Nathan (Author), Dorota Doherty (Author), Geoffrey Lam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Poor weight gain in the first few weeks of life has been studied as a predictor of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Our aim was to assess whether time taken to regain birthweight (BW) be used as an additional marker to identify infants with type 1 ROP. Methods In this retrospect...