Medical research
Discovery holds potential for reversing vision loss
An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation discovery could pave the way for therapies to reverse vision loss common in premature infants and adults.
Oct 5, 2020
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News tagged with retinopathy of prematurity
Pediatrics
Myo-inositol unlikely to reduce risk of eye complication in preterm infants
Contrary to results from earlier studies, the vitamin-like substance myo-inositol does not appear to prevent a potentially blinding complication of preterm birth and may even reduce rates of survival among preterm infants, ...
Oct 24, 2018
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Ophthalmology
Risk of blindness among premature babies with low levels of blood platelets
Premature babies with low levels of platelets (thrombocytes) in their blood run a greatly increased risk of being afflicted with a severe variation of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease that can cause blindness, ...
Oct 10, 2018
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