Expert: The impact of systemic diseases and aging on eye health cannot be ignored
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 6th (Reporter Lin Miaomiao) June 6th is National Eye Care Day. This year's theme is "Visual 2020, focusing on universal eye health." Experts in ophthalmology suggest to pay attention to the impact of systemic diseases and aging on eye health. It is recommended that hospitals integrate medicine, teaching, research and management through innovation to help improve the profession of ophthalmology.
Due to population aging and other reasons, the number of patients with fundus diseases in my country cannot be ignored. In recent years, the level of diagnosis and treatment of fundus diseases in our country has continuously made new progress. For example, OCT technology (non-contact, non-invasive ophthalmic imaging diagnostic technology) has improved the diagnosis of fundus diseases, and the use of innovative drugs has given age-related macular degeneration a drug treatment method.
"The treatment of fundus diseases is difficult, there are not many effective treatment methods, and many patients are eventually blind." Chen Youxin, director of the Department of Ophthalmology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the Key Laboratory of Fundus Diseases of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said that this requires the joint promotion of hospitals and industry associations through innovation Make medicine, teaching, research, and management organically combine to help enhance the profession of ophthalmology.
Sun Xiaodong, deputy dean of the First People's Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University and deputy director of the Ophthalmology Center, said: "The ophthalmology of general hospitals is not only related to visual health. Many systemic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, rheumatic immune disease, etc. Eye health can have an impact."
Sun Xiaodong suggested that for ophthalmology in general hospitals with a large ophthalmology department, it is necessary to highlight the characteristics of the discipline, enhance the comprehensive level of medicine, teaching, research and management, take advantage of the general practice of the general hospital, pay attention to the performance of systemic diseases in ophthalmology, and improve the treatment of patients. Service capabilities.
Hong Jing, deputy director of the Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University Third Hospital, believes that from the perspective of the overall medical level of ophthalmology in my country, there are still imbalances. Some grass-roots hospitals lack the ability to analyze and diagnose some ophthalmic diseases even if they are equipped with professional equipment. It is recommended to further use artificial intelligence and remote diagnosis and treatment technologies to promote the improvement of the medical level of primary hospitals so that more patients with eye diseases can be detected and intervened early.