Retrolental fibroplasia and factors influencing oxygen transport
Lechner, D.; Kalina, R.E.; Hodson, W.A.
Pediatrics 59(6): 916-918
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-4005 PMID: 577304 Document Number: 110629
The hospital records of 58 premature infants in whom proliferative retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) developed were matched with the records of 58 infants without RLF for birth weight, gestational age, and duration oxygen therapy. The two groups were compared for factors likely to influence tissue delivery of oxygen by blood. No significant difference was found in incidence of blood transfusions or exchange transfusions, use of phototherapy, or occurrence of acidosis.