Retinal structure and visual pathway function at school age in children born extremely preterm: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children born extremely preterm (gestational age < 28 weeks) show reduced visual function even without any cerebral or ophthalmological neonatal diagnosis. In this study, we aimed to assess the retinal structure with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and visual function with pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (PR-VEPs) in a geographically defined population-based cohort of school-aged children born extremely preterm. Moreover, we aimed to explore the association between measures of retinal structure and visual pathway function in this cohort.

Methods

All children born extremely preterm from 2006-2011 (n = 65) in Central Norway were invited to participate. Thirty-six children (55%) with a median age of 13 years (range = 10-16) were examined with OCT, OCT-an

SUBMITTER: Ingvaldsen SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10315021 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature