Integrated TCM and Western Treatment Development of Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

VernacularTitle:前部缺血性视神经病变中西医治疗进展
Author: Yu LIANG ; Lixia ZHANG ; Jiansheng GAO ; Xinlu GUO ; Chengyuan LIU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: anterior ischemic optic neuropathy; integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine; review
From: Chinese Journal of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine 2015;(3):134-136
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) is the ciliary artery-circulatory disorders for the supply of optic nerve head area before the sieve plate prozone and sieve plate district, result in the insufficient blood supply of the optic nerve head and ischemia hypoxia, edema. Clinical manifestations of the type with non-artery inflammatory neuropathy and artery inflammatory neuropathy, which would both eventually lead to the irreversible damage to the optic nerve. In the early phase of AION, the main method is giving a glucocorticoids intravenous drip and a periglomerular injection (or retrobulbar injection) in time, but using the glucocorticoids for a long time or in quantity can cause a series of complications. Therefore, the combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine treatment of AION has become more and more significant in clinic.