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Immaturity, perinatal inflammation, and retinopathy of prematurity: a multi-hit hypothesis.
Early human development - 1 May 2009
Dammann Olaf, Brinkhaus Maria-Jantje, Bartels Dorothee B, Dördelmann Michael, Dressler Frank, Kerk Julia, Dörk Thilo, Dammann Christiane E L
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OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationship among markers of infection/inflammation in their association with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). METHODS: We studied clinical characteristics and 4 single nucleotide polymorphisms in infection/inflammation-associated genes in a group of 73 children with a gestational age<32 weeks. Forty-four children (60%) had ROP, of whom 13 (30% of those with ROP) progressed to stage 3...
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