Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Hua
Correspondent Chen Qianru Cai Jiayan
Photo/Courtesy of the hospital
With a healthy cornea, you will see the bright world. But not everyone has a healthy cornea, and Ms. Zhao, 57, unfortunately suffered from a more serious corneal disease.
It is understood that 6 months ago, Ms. Zhao's left eye was blurry, her eyes were tearful, and her foreign body feeling was still very heavy. So she went to many big hospitals to see ophthalmology, and insisted on dropping eye drops for several months according to the doctor's advice, but it still did not get better; and with the gradual deterioration of her eyesight, her life was also affected a lot.
To find out the cause, it is "corneal endothelial decompensation"
Recently, Ms. Zhao came to Guangzhou Aier Eye Hospital affiliated to Jinan University for treatment, and after a detailed examination, He Mansha, director of the comprehensive ophthalmology department of the hospital, diagnosed it as "corneal endothelial decompensation".
"The corneal endothelium is a layer of cells in the lining of the cornea that cannot regenerate. Illness, injury, and surgery may reduce the number of endothelial cells, and to a certain extent, corneal endothelial decompensation may occur, manifested by corneal edema, epithelial detachment, redness, photophobia, lacrimation, and decreased vision. Director He Mansha said.
Ms. Zhao also said, "No wonder my left eye always feels foreign, and sometimes I can't open my eyes in pain." ”
Director He Mansha examined Ms. Zhao
The patient is transferred to a corneal donor within 3 months
In view of Ms. Zhao's situation, Director He Mansha recommended early left corneal endothelial transplant surgery. "Corneal endothelial transplantation is the replacement of the lesion endothelial and posterior elastic layers with a healthy donor cortex, while preserving the unpathed corneal stromal layer as much as possible can improve the patient's postoperative visually related quality of life."
However, a prerequisite for corneal endothelial transplantation is safe and healthy corneal donor material. Different from ordinary corneal transplantation, the number and morphology of endothelial cells in donors are relatively high, and they are more scarce, and they need to go through professional, strict screening, collection and preservation before they can be applied to clinical surgery.
Fortunately, the corneal material was deployed nationwide, and the hospital deployed a suitable corneal donor for Ms. Zhao within 3 months.
Director Ho Man Sha operated on the patient
About 10,000 patients in mainland China undergo corneal transplant surgery every year
With the efforts of Director He Mansha and his team, the corneal endothelial transplant surgery was successfully completed. With the recovery of her left eye, Ms. Zhao can finally get rid of the torment of tears in her eyes and a heavy foreign body sensation, and does not need to change the corneal bandage mirror regularly to alleviate the discomfort of the eyes.
It is reported that Ms. Zhao also specially presented a pennant to Director He Mansha to express her gratitude. Director He Mansha said, "Due to the timely operation, Ms. Zhao's eyes can also restore vision, and if it continues to delay, it may be permanently blind." ”
According to the World Health Organization's 2010 Global Data Report on Visual Disabilities, there are 8.248 million blind people in China. According to statistics, there are about 4-5 million people with corneal blindness in China, of which about 100,000 new corneal blind patients are added every year, and about 10,000 patients undergo corneal transplant surgery in the mainland every year.
"The main way to restore vision to people with corneal blindness is through corneal transplantation. But unfortunately, but due to many factors, the corneal donor resources of the eye bank around the mainland are very unstable, generally need to wait for a long time, far from meeting the needs of patients, more patients in waiting for corneal donors at the same time, due to the deterioration of the disease lost the opportunity for treatment, became lifelong blind. In order to solve this problem, the country's largest cornea donation system and cornea donation information sharing and rescue platform have been built to enrich the resources of corneal donors and greatly reduce the waiting time of patients. Director He Mansha said. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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