{"id":8965,"date":"2019-05-22T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/retinopathy_of_prematurity\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:13:26","slug":"retinopathy_of_prematurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/retinopathy_of_prematurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Retinopathy of prematurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously termed retrolental fibroplasia, it consists of damage to the blood vessels of the retina, which may become detached if the resulting scar tissue contracts. &nbsp;Linked to hyperpoxia, resulting from an overly high level of oxygen therapy, it can lead to blindness in very preterm and very low birthweight infants. &nbsp;Previously thought to have been eradicated, it has become prevalent again as more very preterm infants requiring lung ventilation are kept alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"preterm_infant\">Preterm infant<\/a>, Very (or extremely) preterm birth, <a href=\"retina\">Retina<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously termed retrolental fibroplasia, it consists of damage to the blood vessels of the retina, which may become detached if the resulting scar tissue contracts. &nbsp;Linked to hyperpoxia, resulting from an overly high level of oxygen therapy, it can lead to blindness in very preterm and very low birthweight infants. &nbsp;Previously thought to have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/retinopathy_of_prematurity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retinopathy of prematurity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}