March 14, 2012

From 11 to 17 March in our country runs the World Week combat glaucoma . Glaucoma is a group eye diseases Which are characterized by the development of various defects: optic atrophy, decreased vision, and so forth. The disease is widespread, especially among the elderly population, so the health care became more and more attention to his attention.

This year, a variety of educational seminars and nauno practical conferences for patients and specialists ophthalmologists will be held in Russia, which began in the late winter and will last until early April. Thus the organization of the Association of Ophthalmologist's going to attract the attention of professionals and the public to the issues of early diagnosis of glaucoma, as well as raise awareness about the disease. Separate aktsient will be placed on the work of schools for patients with glaucoma.

According to statistics, in Russia today there are more than one million patients with glaucoma. But experts is not the first year, say the real figure is much higher. This is due primarily to the occurrence of the disease: in the early stages of the possible complete absence symptoms . Nevertheless, the disease is one of the major causes of blindness   among the population.

"Everyone, not passing regularly checkups ophthalmologist And do not measure the intraocular pressure may not be aware of the presence of pathological changes associated with glaucoma. The early stages of the disease characterized by symptoms. But high ocular pressure   It can lead to a gradual irreversible destruction of ocular nerve fibers. As a result, the patient falls to a specialist only when vision has deteriorated, "- says the president of the Russian Society of glaucomatous Professor Egorov EA