[An eight-year experience of cryotherapy of acrive retinal retinopathy in prematures: management of patients and results].

The paper represents an eight-year experience of active retinopathy of prematures (RP) by the method of transscleral cryopexy of the retinal zone in 91 patients (181 eyes) The time period and periodicity of ophthalmologic follow-up of prematures with RP risk are defined; indication and contraindications for cryotherapy are formulated; complications observed at the early postoperative period are pointed out. Cryotherapy was shown to be an effective method of treatment in RP: favorable treatment results were registered in 54.5% of cases. There are also results of a comparative analysis of the clinical refraction condition observed in RP patients in 4.8-5 years after cryotherapy. Myopia was by far more often diagnosed in the group of RP patients (38.2%). This parameter made 12% (p < 0.001) in the group of equal prematures.