Retinopathy of Prematurity: The Life of a Lifetime Disease

Purpose To provide information on retrolental fibroplasias (RLF), later known as retinopathy of prematurity. Design Review of the literature on the subject and a first-person account of what was then RLF by one of the authors (A.P.) who was involved in the earliest days in research regarding RLF. Methods MEDLINE search on the topics of RLF and retinopathy of prematurity plus a first-person historic review of original work that dealt with RLF....