Abstract
To the Editor.— In the Multicentre Trial of Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), the avascular peripheral retina was treated in one of the impaired eyes with threshold ROP. 1 An outcome was an eye that had a fold of retina through the macula or partial to complete retrolental membrane (grade III through V retrolental fibroplasia). 2 Twenty-two percent of the treated eyes had unfavorable results, compared with 43% of the untreated eyes. Not yet reported is the fact that some of the favorable eyes with grade II retrolental fibroplasia and grade III retrolental fibroplasia not through the macula will be visually disabled (acuity Drs Phelps and Phelps 3 present a complex process for determining treatment of one or both eyes.
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