Accuracy of retinopathy of prematurity image-based diagnosis by pediatric ophthalmology fellows: implications for training.

Purpose: To measure the accuracy of image-based retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) diagnosis by pediatric ophthalmology fellows.

Methods: This was a comparative case series of expert versus nonexpert clinicians in image-based ROP diagnosis. An atlas of 804 retinal images was captured from 248 eyes of 67 premature infants with a wide-angle camera (RetCam-II, Clarity Medical Systems, Pleasanton, CA).

Acute retinal necrosis after intraocular triamcinolone acetonide injection.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to report a case of acute retinal necrosis after combined cataract surgery and intracameral triamcinolone acetonide injection in a healthy elderly patient.

Methods: Testing used was a clinical examination including fundus photographs, fluo-rescein angiography, and serologic testing.

Results: A 75-year-old healthy white woman undergoing cataract extraction received an injection of intracameral triamcinolone acetonide as a substitute for postoperative topical steroids.

Plus disease in retinopathy of prematurity: quantitative analysis of vascular change.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between rate of vascular change and plus disease diagnosis.

Design: Retrospective observational case-control study.

Methods: Wide-angle images were taken bilaterally from 37 infants at 31 to 33 weeks and 35 to 37 weeks postmenstrual age (PMA).

Accuracy of retinopathy of prematurity diagnosis by retinal fellows.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure the accuracy of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) diagnosis by retinal fellows.

Methods: An atlas of 804 retinal images was captured from 248 eyes of 67 premature infants with a wide-angle camera (RetCam-II, Clarity Medical Systems, Pleasanton, CA). Images were uploaded to a study Web site, from which an expert pediatric retinal specialist and 7 retinal fellows independently provided a diagnosis (no ROP, mild ROP, type 2 ROP, or treatment-requiring ROP) for each eye.

Telemedical diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity: accuracy of expert versus non-expert graders.

Background/aims: To assess accuracy of telemedical retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) diagnosis by trained non-expert graders compared with expert graders.

Methods: Eye examinations (n=248) from 67 consecutive infants were captured using wide-angle retinal photography (RetCam-II, Clarity Medical Systems, Pleasanton, California, USA). Non-expert graders attended two 1-h training sessions on image-based ROP diagnosis.