Glaucoma is the world's first irreversible blinding eye disease, known as the "thief who stole the light". March 6-12, 2022 is the 15th World Glaucoma Week, and this year's theme is "Valuing Glaucoma Follow-up to Prevent Visual Impairment". World Glaucoma Week is a week-long week designed to improve glaucoma awareness and thus avoid loss of visual field, or even permanent vision loss. During this year's "World Glaucoma Week", Aier Ophthalmology took the lead in establishing the "Glaucoma Patient Home", which is committed to creating a systematic, full-cycle personalized diagnosis and treatment service system for patients and effectively improving the quality of life of glaucoma patients.
According to the "China Glaucoma Guidelines (2020)" released by the Ophthalmology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the number of people with primary glaucoma in the world will exceed 76 million in 2020, and the mainland will reach more than 21 million, of which the number of blind people will reach 5.67 million! Due to the lack of knowledge popularization, nearly 90% of glaucoma patients in mainland China have not been diagnosed in time at an early stage, so it is imperative to popularize glaucoma knowledge and do a good job in glaucoma screening.
"Because the symptoms of glaucoma are not obvious, the proportion of patients who take the initiative to go to the hospital to see a doctor is relatively low." Professor Duan Xuanchu, a member of the National Anti-Blindness Group and a doctoral supervisor of the Aier Academy of Ophthalmology of Central South University, said that the incidence of glaucoma increases with age, about 0.68% in the general population, 2.3% in people over 40 years old, but the incidence rate after 65 years old can reach 4% to 7%. Glaucoma is insidious, with more than 90% of glaucoma patients in developing countries unaware of their disease.
"Unlike some other eye diseases, glaucoma cannot be 'once and for all', it is a lifelong disease that cannot be cured, but it can be controlled as long as the condition is actively treated, and this requires the cooperation of the patient and the ophthalmologist." Professor Duan Xuanchu explained, "Aier Ophthalmology has successively held the 'Glaucoma Patient Home Press Conference' in 8 provinces and regions such as Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Chongqing, Heilongjiang, Guangxi and Zhejiang this year, and jointly established the 'Glaucoma Patient Home', which is to popularize the knowledge of glaucoma diseases to the majority of patients and their relatives, strengthen the mutual contact and communication between doctors and patients, patients and patients, enhance patient self-care, and provide accurate diagnosis and treatment and management services for glaucoma patients throughout the course and life cycle." ”
It is reported that due to the difficulty of glaucoma surgery technology and the uneven distribution of expert resources, glaucoma patients in the vast remote and grass-roots areas cannot be effectively treated, resulting in serious disease development and even blindness. In order to more effectively provide timely and professional medical help to grass-roots glaucoma patients, while cultivating local surgeons and technical personnel, normalizing assistance and promoting the improvement of medical services for difficult eye diseases such as glaucoma, helping the majority of grass-roots doctors to better understand glaucoma, carrying out early screening and early treatment of glaucoma, and reducing the undiagnosed rate of glaucoma, Aier Ophthalmology department is also continuing to carry out glaucoma expert inspection activities with the theme of "famous doctors' exquisite diagnosis and lifelong service". Aier Ophthalmology's nationally renowned glaucoma experts provide one-on-one diagnosis and treatment services for local patients to ensure that patients receive professional and meticulous treatment.
[Reporter] Ou Xujiang
[Correspondent] Xiong Liying Peng Mengting
【Author】 Ou Xujiang
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