Sugie Manabu, Nobutoshi Nawa, Yusuke Noguchi, Atsuko Taki, Ayako Kashimada, Izumi Honda, Akira Koyama, Kaoru Okazaki, Masatoshi Kondo, Hiroyuki Miyahara, Kazuyuki Ito, Takeru Yamauchi, Tsutomu Kondo, Fumiko Honda-Ozaki, Satoshi Kusuda, Chikako Morioka, Takeo Fujiwara, Tomohiro Morio, Kenichi Kashimada
OBJECTIVE: To identify whether histologically confirmed chorioamnionitis (hCAM) is associated with development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). STUDY DESIGN: We retrospectively analyzed two different cohorts. Cohort 1 was the national database of newborns in Japan born at ≤1500g or <32 weeks' gestation (January 2003 through April 2021, n=38,013). Cohort 2 was babies born at <1500g from a single institution in Tsuchiura, Japan, (April 2015 through March 2018, n=118)...
May 2, 2024: Journal of Pediatrics