Vision in premature infants Refraction and keratometry in premature infants

Normal development of corneal curvature is affected by preterm delivery A bnormalities of emmetropisation, resulting most often in myopia, have long been independently associated by numerous authors from nearly every corner of the globe with increasing prematurity, increasing severity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and retinal ablative therapy. This topic has also been the subject of an editorial in the BJO in 1997, the sub-stance of which remains true today.1 These refractive error abnormalities o