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 infantsin the United States annually. In a National Eye Institute-supportedmulticenter clinical trial, cryotherapy (freeze treatment) reduced therisk of severe visual loss by one-half in 172 babies with advancedROP. Language English

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Source: News from NEI - August 29, 2014 Category: Opthalmology Authors: David Source Type: news