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Peer reviewedSteinweg, Sue Byrd; Griffin, Harold C.; Griffin, Linda W.; Gingras, Happy – RE:view: Rehabilitation Education for Blindness and Visual Impairment, 2005
The eyes of premature infants are especially vulnerable to injury after birth. A serious complication is called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), which is abnormal growth of the blood vessels in an infant's eye. Retinopathy of prematurity develops when abnormal blood vessels grow and spread throughout the retina, which is the nerve tissue at the…
Descriptors: Pathology, Visual Impairments, Premature Infants, Ophthalmology
Peer reviewedGriffin-Shirley, Nora; Trusty, Sharon; Kelley, Emily; Siew-Jin, Lai Keun; Macias, Eduardo P. – RE:view: Rehabilitation Education for Blindness and Visual Impairment, 2004
Current diabetes vision care guidelines suggest that people receive at least an annual dilated eye examination 5 years after the diagnosis of Type I diabetes and a dilated eye examination at the time of diagnosis of Type II diabetes, and at least annually thereafter. Hispanics in the United States have a three-fold greater prevalence of diabetes…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Blindness, Adults, Hispanic Americans
