21 research outputs found
Electroretinographic effects of retinal dragging and retinal folds in eyes with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
Optical coherence tomography findings of falciform retinal detachment complicated with persistent fetal vasculature
Non-verbal Communication in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Video Audit Using Non-verbal Immediacy Scale (NIS-O)
Identification of novel KIF11 mutations in patients with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy and a phenotypic analysis
Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy or Retinopathy of Prematurity
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) can have very similar clinical presentations. Both diseases have abnormal development of retinal vessels and lead to severe vitreoretinopathy which causes blindness in newborn infants. The single most important difference is prematurity. In ROP, the most important risk factors are gestational age and low birth weight. In FEVR, it is the genetic mutation. Identifying the underlying mutations in the causative gene can predict the prognosis of patients with FEVR. ROP tends to resolve naturally or with treatment, but FEVR is a lifelong disease. Even we know that the clinical characteristics and risk factors between both diseases are different; the clinical similarity makes differential diagnosis difficult, especially in FEVR patients who were born prematurely. In such a scenario, patients could exhibit features of FEVR or ROP or both and found to have a discrepancy between birth history and fundus appearance, thus ROPER/fROP was used to describe these patients under such conditions