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Interest in the classification of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) evolved toward the end of the first “epidemic” after a 10-year period of uncertainty about both the process and the evolution of the disease. In 1953 Reese and coworkers1 developed a standard system that described fundus findings of retrolental fibroplasia (now called ROP) using direct ophthalmoscopy. They rigidly divided the acute proliferative phase from the chronic cicatricial phase of the disease. They also correlated long-term visual function, including visual acuity and refractive error, with long-term retinal changes. This classification system functioned well, though the need for it decreased as the number of infants with retinopathy decreased during the late 1950s with identification of oxygen as the “causative” agent.2,3
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Quinn, G.E. (1992). Retinopathy of Prematurity: Natural History and Classification. In: Flynn, J.T., Tasman, W. (eds) Retinopathy of Prematurity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2808-0_2
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