Severity of Neonatal Retinopathy of Prematurity Is Predictive of Neurodevelopmental Functional Outcome at Age 5.5 Years

The purpose of this study was to assess the relation between neonatal retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in very low birth weight infants and neurodevelopmental function at age 5.5 years.Longitudinal follow-up of children occurred in 2 cohorts of the Multicenter Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity Study. The extended natural history cohort followed 1199 survivors of <1251 g birth weight from 5 centers. The threshold randomized cohort (ThRz)...