In the Kharkiv region in 2016 year. The first time glaucoma was detected in 2148 people. As reported in the Kharkov Regional Health Center, in 2015. this figure was 1,688 people.
A total of 17 thousand. 913 patients with glaucoma.
According to the regional health center, the risk factors for the development of glaucoma are: a disorder of the nervous, cardiovascular systems, severe degrees of myopia or farsightedness, trauma and eye surgery, endocrine and hereditary diseases. For example, 40% of patients with pathology of the fundus are people with diabetes.
"Leading specialists of Kharkov Regional Clinical Hospital and Kharkiv City Hospital No. 14 continue to improve the surgical treatment of complex forms of glaucoma, using the most modern techniques, one of which is the establishment of drainage Express. The patient's eyes are implanted with a miniature valve that, with programmed accuracy, automatically adjusts the intraocular pressure by providing fluid outflow. The effectiveness of reducing intraocular pressure is about 90%. This operation is unique, because it allows you to keep your eyesight patients, even in those cases in which the medicine was previously powerless. Kharkiv has always been and remains one of the centers of Ukrainian ophthalmic surgery, "the health center.
Glaucoma for a long time is asymptomatic. But over time, there is also symptomatology: there is pain in the eye, superciliary arches, temples, when looking at the lamp, rainbow circles appear. Often, patients complain of the sensation of a foreign body in the eye (it seems that you look "through the grid"), blurred vision in the morning, redness and pain in the eyes, headache.
To warn glaucoma:.
quit smoking, do not consume alcohol and foods containing caffeine;.
Avoid taking hormone preparations, as well as ephedra and licorice;.
do not overstress your eyesight. When working at a computer, reading, watching television, you need to translate and focus your eyes every 20 minutes for 1 minute on any distant subject.
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