Differential Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) which is a proliferative vitreoretinopathy is seen in preterm babies has become one of the main causes of preventable childhood blindness in the development countries. Nowadays, the survive rate of the preterm babies who have low birth weight has been increasing thanks to neonatal advances. For this reason, the incidence of ROP has increased in recent times. Similar retinal pathologies to ROP can be seen in the term babies with normal birth weight. In this review, it is aimed to be discussed in detail on the retinal vascular disorders that may be mistaken with ROP clinically such as familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, persistent fetal vasculopathy, Norrie disease, incontinentia pigmenti and osteoporosis pseudoglioma.