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I have several diagnosises, but this is the one i was born with. what is rop?
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Retinopathy: Fetal eyes are designed to develop in the low oxygen environment of the womb.The fetal o2 is seldom over 60%, but premature delivery changes that.To survive premi's have to balance the need for more oxygen of their other tissues & this sometimes causes the blood vessels supplying the retina to overgrow & scar the eye & produce visual loss.The process is called retinopathy of prematurity or rop.
Answered 9/9/2019
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