Prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness in infants and young children
10.3760/cma.j.cn511434-20220520-00310
- VernacularTitle:努力做好婴幼儿可避免盲的防治
- Author:
Jianhong LIANG
1
;
Xiaoxin LI
Author Information
1. 北京大学人民医院眼科 眼病与视光医学研究所 视网膜脉络膜疾病诊治研究北京市重点实验室北京大学医学部眼视光学院, 北京 100044
- Keywords:
Infant;
Blindness;
Preventive medicine;
Editorial
- From:
Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases
2022;38(7):523-525
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Prevention and treatment of infants and young children can avoid blindness, effectively reduce the incidence of children's blindness and vision loss. Eye diseases causing blindness in infants and young children mainly include retinopathy of prematurity, retinoblastoma, familial exudative retinopathy, persistent embryonic blood vessels, vitreous hemorrhage, congenital cataract, etc. Most of them are preventable and controllable, however, many diseases have strict requirements for the effective treatment time window. The basic form and path to carry out the prevention and control of blinding eye diseases in infants and young children are building a prevention and control system with a combination of multi-party medical forces, referral to pediatric eye disease institutions with relevant technical resources for further diagnosis and treatment, so as to achieve early detection, standardized treatment and visual training.
