Visual and refractive outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity in school-age patients.

Cross-sectionalGraefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie· Jun 2026

Visual and refractive outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity in school-age patients.

Yi-Hsuan Tseng, Wei-Yu Wang, Pei-Liang Wu … Wei-Chi Wu

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Pediatric OphthalmologyCross-sectionalPrognosisQ1IF 3.1

Laser-treated retinopathy of prematurity eyes had shorter axial length than full-term eyes at school age.

Visual and refractive outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity in school-age patients.

Yi-Hsuan Tseng … Wei-Chi Wu

Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology · Jun 2026 · Q1 in Ophthalmology

Purpose

To evaluate visual and refractive outcomes in school-aged patients with a history of prematurity and retinopathy of prematurity (retinopathy of prematurity) with or without treatment.

Methods

Were categorized into five groups: full-term, preterm without retinopathy of prematurity, retinopathy of prematurity without treatment, intravitreal injection of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (IVI)-treated retinopathy of prematurity, and laser indirect ophthalmoscopy (laser indirect ophthalmoscopy)-treated retinopathy of prematurity.

n = 310 patients

Results

shorter eye length in laser-treated eyes than in full-term eyes

22.73mm

LIO-treated AL

24.39mm

Full-term AL

More results

Significant intergroup differences in axial length, anterior chamber depth, white-to-white distance, and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were observed across both age cohorts (all p < 0.05).

More results

When directly compared with IVI-treated eyes in the older cohort, laser indirect ophthalmoscopy-treated eyes had significantly thinner corneas (p = 0.04) and steeper corneal curvature (p = 0.005).

IVI-treated eyes exhibited biometric and refractive profiles similar to those of untreated retinopathy of prematurity.

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Conclusion · 1 of 3

Retinopathy of prematurity and its treatment have long-term effects on ocular development and refraction.

Conclusion · 2 of 3

Laser-treated patients exhibited significantly higher myopia and astigmatism, shorter axial length, shallower anterior chambers, and smaller corneal diameters, particularly in older age groups.

Conclusion · 3 of 3

In contrast, IVI-treated eyes had a biometry closer to that of untreated retinopathy of prematurity.

Visual and refractive outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity in school-age patients.

Visual and refractive outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity in school-age patients.

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