Retinopathy of prematurity and cortical blindness [4]

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Keith and Doyle,1 "Retinopathy of Prematurity in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants." We are writing to ask the authors to comment on whether any babies who graduated from their nursery suffered cortical visual impairment. In northern California in a registry maintained by the Blind Babies Foundation, we found that 7% of the visually impaired children with extremely low birth weight had cortical visual impairment as the etiology of their low vision.