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Karen McCutcheon

Senior lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast

Retinopathy of prematurity: Causes, prevention and treatment

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a proliferative disorder of the immature retinal vasculature The retina has no blood vessels until around 16 weeks' gestation; the vessels grow out from the optic...

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