Glaucoma is treated without drugs.
In Pisa (Italy) began piloting a new method of surgical treatment of glaucoma, which the authors believe, marks the revolution to the therapy of this disease. In fact it is very similar to surgery to replace damaged, clouded crystalline lens during cataract.
Among the advantages of this method, note the shortening of hospital stay, minimal risk of postoperative complications, no postoperative scarring and, most importantly, no bandages, which allow the patient to see immediately after the surgery… The new method, if confirmed the claimed advantage of the results of clinical practice, will become a reliable alternative to medication.
If earlier it was on the outer domain, with a cut of the conjunctiva and the sclera (the outer membrane of the eye), now a doctor goes inside the anterior chamber of the cornea, making the puncture, reminding one that is made in the treatment of cataracts.
The new method completely eliminates patients with glaucoma of drug dependence: it is known that patients with glaucoma need to be instilled drug into the eye several times a day. In addition, as a result of operations on the eyeball, not a single lesion, so that vision is restored completely.
A new method of surgical treatment of glaucoma can be used to detect the earliest stages of the disease when it is not already running and does not require radical and traumatic surgery. First of all, we are talking about the 40% of patients with glaucoma (usually elderly people), which, according to statistics, by virtue of various reasons, do not always observe the regime of medication (drops), which ultimately leads to a sharp deterioration in their the state.
Thus, the introduction of a new method in wide clinical practice would be to speak with confidence about a significant improvement of quality of life not only to patients with glaucoma, but also those with visual defects are traumatic in nature (athletes).
Laser surgery for nearsightedness.
Nearsighted people have always suffered from the inability to see the world clearly – with all its nuances, shades and tones, clean lines and clear contours. But then the human race smart enough to create a glasses, then contact lenses, and finally, the finest ophthalmic surgery.
Over the past 20 years the world has been more than 10 million transactions vision correction with the help of the so-called excimer laser. The basic principle of these operations – the impact of the beam on the cornea to change its curvature. If the patient is myopic – cornea becomes negative lens (by analogy with the glasses) if the patient is farsighted cornea becomes positive lens. With this picture begins to focus on the retina properly, and therefore do not need glasses.
The undeniable advantage of laser operations is a high-accuracy laser device that runs a special program. Ignorant man may seem that the laser must burn something, but it is not so. He simply “evaporate” unwanted cells of the cornea by about 1 / 8 of its thickness – precision required of evaporation has been calculated to the thousandth of a millimeter. Low impact is not above 38 ? C. Operation is painless.
Of course, laser ophthalmic surgery has their contraindications, both absolute and relative. Absolute: autoimmune diseases and immunodeficiency states, systemic diseases affecting the healing process, glaucoma, cataracts, rapidly progressive myopia, corneal thickness less than 450 microns, operated retinal detachment. Relative: diabetes, the presence of a pacemaker in a patient, pregnancy and the postpartum period, breastfeeding (hormonal changes), endogenous psychoses, acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of the anterior and posterior parts of the eye.
You have to understand that laser eye surgery, like any other – can have complications that are usually associated with technical support operations. Correction may be inadequate or made ??with an excess that will distort the result. And finally, the result of the operation cannot meet the expectations of the patient’s subjective, not to mention the fact that in a few years even the most excellent results of operations could deteriorate due to the ongoing process of development of myopia. Magic, alas, does not happen – be prepared for this.