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Cicatricial retrolental fibroplasia: Its occurrence without oxygen administration and in full term infants

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Six patients demonstrating typical signs of the cicatricial phase of retrolental fibroplasia are presented. None of the patients had received supplemental oxygen treatment after birth, and three patients were full term with birth weights ever 6 1/2 pounds. Two of the three premature patients had been born prior to 1901, before the advent of oxygen therapy for premature infants. It is apparent from these observations that retrolental fibroplasia does occur without oxygen administration and also in full term infants.

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Sechs Patienten mit den typischen Zeichen einer vernarbten retrolentalen Fibroplasie werden beschrieben. Keiner der Patienten hatte nach der Geburt zusätzlichen Sauerstoff geatmet. Nur drei der Patienten waren Frühgeburten. Die anderen drei hatten ein Geburtsgewicht von mehr als 3 kg. Zwei der drei Frühgeburten waren 1901 geboren, also bevor die Sauerstoffbehandlung frühgeborener Kinder eingeführt worden war. Es ist daher als bewiesen anzusehen, daß die retrolentale Fibroplasie auch ohne Sauerstoffbehandlung und bei termingerecht entbundenen Kindern auftreten kann.

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Brockhurst, R.J., Chishti, M.I. Cicatricial retrolental fibroplasia: Its occurrence without oxygen administration and in full term infants. Albrecht von Graefes Arch. Klin. Ophthalmol. 195, 113–128 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00417114

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