Dr. Aditya Maitray

Consultant, Vitreoretina Department, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai.

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Aditya Maitray is a consultant at vitreoretina department, aravind eye hospital madurai. He has completed his M.B.B.S. from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, 2012. He has completed MS Ophthalmology from M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka in the year 2015. After which he did Research-cum-clinical fellowship in Vitreoretina at Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai (2015- 2018). He has bagged the achievement of being best Outgoing Postgraduate (Ophthalmology), M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, May 2015 and Best Vitreoretinal Research Fellow Award, Year 2015-2016, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai in his brilliant academic carrier. He shows a keen interest in research activities and have 13 publications in peer reviewed journals under his name.

  1. Articles 1 Apr 2021 42 min read

    Retinopathy of Prematurity

    Introduction First described in 1942, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vasoproliferative retinopathy affecting premature infants of low birth weight. As per the original description by Terry et al, this disease was labelled as retrolental fibroplasia (RLF) based on the hypothesis that it involved the proliferation of the embryonic hyaloid system[1] But Owens and Owens later described that in these infants, the hyaloid system was normal at birth and the RLF developed postnatally.[2] The term “retinopathy of prematurity” was coined later as the disease pathogenesis and clinical presentation got better understood. [3]In the 1950s, the association between supplemental oxygen and ROP pathogenesis was first established by controlled studies done in the neonatal intensive care units. {4,5] The spectrum of ROP ranges from mild cases that may resolve spontaneously with no visual impairment to advanced cases with bilateral irreversible blindness within the first few months of life. Epidemio

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