Neonatal bacteremia and retinopathy of prematurity: the ELGAN study

Kristi Washburn Tolsma, Elizabeth N Allred, Minghua L Chen, Jay Duker, Alan Leviton, Olaf Dammann

Arch Ophthalmol. 2011;129:1555-63

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In MVA, newborns with presumed late bacteremia were at ↑ risk for prethreshold-threshold ROP (OR, 1.8; 95% CI, 1.02-3.2), and those with definite late bacteremia were at ↑ risk for prethreshold-threshold ROP and plus disease ROP (1.8; 1.1-2.9).

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