This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (10)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

VII. Effect of Oxygen Exposure on the Electroretinogram in Kittens

BO E. HELLSTRÖM, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(2):211-220.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

There is convincing evidence that exposure to oxygen is intimately related to the occurrence of retrolental fibroplasia in premature infants.* The more immediate relationship is, however, not exactly known, and many problems remain to be solved. The importance of a lowering of the environmental oxygen concentration for the development of vasoproliferating changes is an unsettled question. The study by Bedrossian and associates² pointed to a higher incidence of the disease in infants suddenly withdrawn from high oxygen concentrations as compared with the occurrence in children slowly weaned. On the other hand, it was pointed out in the preliminary report of the cooperative study³ that the prolongation of the stay of the infant in oxygen to permit slow weaning might increase the risk of developing the disease. Another problem concerns the question as to whether external factors other than oxygen exposure influence the pathological vascularization of the retina. In . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Stockholm

From the Ophthalmologic and Pediatric Clinics, Karolinska Sjukhuset, and the Histological Department, Karolinska Institutet.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 7, 1955.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?