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PEDIATRICS Vol. 106 No. 2 August 2000, pp. 378-380

The Effects of Blood Transfusion Protocol on Retinopathy of Prematurity

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To the Editor.

We wish to comment on the recently published article by Brooks et al evaluating the effect of anemia and transfusion on the incidence and severity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Their manuscript appears to suffer from numerous statistical problems that render their data difficult to interpret. Some of these are listed below:

  1. In Table 1, there were 21 infants in group 1 (no transfusion) and 26 infants in group 2 (transfusion), even though only 16 of group 1 and 18 of group 2 appeared to complete the study (Table 3). This . . . [Full Text of this Article]