Patients' perspective on prostatic artery embolization: A qualitative study.

Objectives: The aim was to describe the patients' experience of undergoing prostatic artery embolization.

Methods: A retrospective qualitative interview study was undertaken with 15 patients of mean age 73 years who had undergone prostatic artery embolization with a median duration of 210 min at two medium sized hospitals in Sweden. The reasons for conducting prostatic artery embolization were clean intermittent catheterization (n = 4), lower urinary tract symptoms (n = 10) or haematuria (n = 1).

Extreme prematurity, treated retinopathy, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and cerebral palsy are significant risk factors for ophthalmological abnormalities at 6.5 years of age.

Aim: This study evaluated the contributions of various prenatal and postnatal predictive factors to a documented high prevalence of ophthalmological abnormalities in children aged 6.5 years who were born extremely preterm.

Methods: We carried out a prospective population-based study of all children born in Sweden at a gestational age of 22 + 0 to 26 + 6 weeks based on the Extremely Preterm Infants in Sweden Study.

Ophthalmologic Outcome of Extremely Preterm Infants at 6.5 Years of Age: Extremely Preterm Infants in Sweden Study (EXPRESS).

Importance: This follow-up study of extremely preterm (EPT) children (<27 weeks' gestational age [GA] at birth) revealed major eye and visual problems in 37.9% (147 of 388) of all EPT infants and in 55.4% (67 of 121) of the most immature subgroups at 6.

Five years of treatment for retinopathy of prematurity in Sweden: results from SWEDROP, a national quality register.

Background/aims: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a sight-threatening disease, requiring efficient screening and treatment. The present study aims to describe various aspects on treatment for ROP in Sweden.

Methods: Data on treatment for ROP in infants born in 2008-2012 were extracted from Swedish national register for retinopathy of prematurity, a web-based national register.

Evaluation of new guidelines for ROP screening in Sweden using SWEDROP - a national quality register.

Purpose: To investigate whether recent Swedish guidelines for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) screening, that is, a gestational age (GA) at birth of <31 weeks (w), are applicable in a new national cohort of prematurely born infants.

Methods: SWEDROP is a national register for ROP, initiated in 2006. The present paper reports on data from the register on various aspects of screening for ROP in infants born between 2010 and 2011 and compares the results with those for a previously published cohort born between 2008 and 2009.

Ophthalmologic outcome at 30 months' corrected age of a prospective Swedish cohort of children born before 27 weeks of gestation: the extremely preterm infants in sweden study.

Importance: Follow-up at 30 months' corrected age reveals eye and visual problems in one-third of children born extremely prematurely (<27 weeks' gestation).

Objective: To investigate the ophthalmologic outcome of extremely preterm children at 30 months' corrected age. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A prospective, population-based follow-up study (Extremely Preterm Infants in Sweden Study [EXPRESS]) was conducted in Sweden.

Regional differences in screening for retinopathy of prematurity in infants born before 27 weeks of gestation in Sweden--the EXPRESS study.

Purpose:   The primary aim was to analyse regional incidences of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and frequencies of treatment and their relation to perinatal risk factors during a 3-year period. A secondary aim was to study adherence to the study screening protocol in the different regions.

Methods:   A population-based study of neonatal morbidity in extremely preterm infants in Sweden (EXPRESS) was performed during 2004-2007.

Swedish national register for retinopathy of prematurity (SWEDROP) and the evaluation of screening in Sweden.

Objectives: To evaluate screening for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in Sweden and to investigate possible modifications of the present screening guidelines.

Methods: Infants in Sweden with a gestational age (GA) of 31 weeks + 6 days or less are screened for ROP. Data from the Swedish national register for ROP (SWEDROP) during 2008 and 2009 were extracted and compared with a national perinatal quality register.

Screening for retinopathy of prematurity in infants born before 27 weeks' gestation in Sweden.

Objective: To analyze screening for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) during a 3-year period in a national cohort of infants born before 27 weeks' gestation.

Methods: A national prospective study of neonatal morbidity in extremely preterm infants was performed in Sweden between April 1, 2004, and March 31, 2007. Screening for ROP was to start in the fifth postnatal week and to continue weekly until complete vascularization of the retina or until regression of ROP.

Incidence of retinopathy of prematurity in infants born before 27 weeks' gestation in Sweden.

Objective: To determine the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in extremely preterm infants born before 27 weeks' gestation in Sweden during a 3-year period.

Methods: A national, prospective, population-based study was performed in Sweden from April 1, 2004, to March 31, 2007. The ophthalmologic part of the study was separately organized, and screening for ROP was performed beginning postnatal week 5.

Fourier-analysed steady-state VEPs in pre-school children with and without normal binocularity.

Pre-school children aged 4-5 were examined with steady-state VEP in response to a sinusoidal grating pattern with a spatial frequency of 4 c/deg, reversing at rates 5, 10, and 15 Hz. Normal children (n = 10) were compared with subjects lacking stereo perception (n = 6) and with subjects showing significant unilateral amblyopia with visual acuity in the worse eye <0.5 (n = 7).

[Complications during the neonatal period can cause visual impairment later in life. Only few of the children were born prematurely--a surprising result of the study].

Forty per cent of children known at our low vision centre at the Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden, had been treated in a neonatal ward after birth. Only few of them were born prematurely. Half of the children had an additional neurological handicap.

The frequency of amblyopia among visually impaired persons.

Purpose: To investigate the frequency of amblyopia among visually handicapped patients.

Methods: The study is a retrospective investigation of all living patients registered in four Visual Rehabilitation Centres in a region in southern Sweden. The area's total population numbered 865,612 persons of whom 11,365 were registered as visually handicapped (with visual acuity < or = 0.