Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9570
ISSN: 2155-9570
Elena Erokhina, Irina Trifanenkova and Alexander Tereschenko
MNTK Eye Microsurgery, Russia
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Clin Exp Ophthalmol
122 preterm infants (217 eyes) with ROP at gestational ages 26-34 weeks underwent ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM): 44 eyes (20%) with stage I, 35 eyes (16%) with stage II, 42 eyes (19%) with stage III, 49 eyes (22.5%) with stage IV. The control group consisted of 20 premature infants (40 eyes) without ROP and other ocular diseases aged from 1 to 4 months. Clinico-morphometric classification of ROP was used to interpret the results of the study. It provides a division of each stage of active ROP on favorable and unfavorable types of course. Morphometric parameters at stages I and II had no differences with the control group. At stage III with favorable type it was tended to reduce the depth of the anterior chamber (to 2.56�±0.38 mm), a slight reduction of the thickness of the iris in the pupillary zone (to 0.40�±0.12 mm) was determined. At stage III with unfavorable type lens thickness increase (to 3.52�±0.16 mm) was noted. At the periphery of the retina extrarational proliferation in all segments, except the nasal, were identified in 100% areas of flat retinal detachment height to 0.20-0.35 mm were defined in 95%. At stage IV in postzonular space opacities like mist or acoustically dense membranes were defined that was fixed to the retina at the periphery in 99% and in the area of pars plana in 78%. UBM expands the data of ophthalmological examination that allows using it as a complementary tool for ROP management.
Elena Erokhina has completed her Ophthalmological studies in Kaluga Branch of FGAU MNTK Eye Microsurgery, Russia. She has published 5 papers in reputed journals.
Email: nauka@mntk.kaluga.ru