References: the United Kingdom has called a halt to laser and excimer treatment of myopia surgery ！！！！
"Laser for myopia, 30 seconds can make you say goodbye to myopia and take off your glasses".
Advertisements like these seem particularly tempting these days. But a recent study published by Britain's health department warned that the procedure could have an impact on patients' long-term safety. Yesterday, the country's leading ophthalmologist Zhao Jialiang also issued a call to choose this surgery not blindly, to recognize its 5 percent risk.
Britain calls off laser vision surgery
Singaporean doctors emphasize surgical conditions
According to media reports, Britain's health department recently released a year-long study pointing out that there are insecurity factors in laser vision correction surgery. The report pointed out that the failure rate of the procedure is one in 10, not one in 1,000 as some advertisements claim. Complications can also arise from the procedure, resulting in patients having to undergo corneal transplants. For this reason, the British health authorities do not intend to accept the procedure.
Singaporean ophthalmologists were quick to speak out after the warning was issued in the media, saying that under certain conditions, laser vision correction surgery is safe, reliable and effective. The "certain conditions" mean that the surgeon has to ensure that the corneal bed of the patient undergoing the surgery retains a certain thickness, so as to avoid an ultra-thin cornea, which could lead to severe vision loss after the surgery. In addition, the patient's myopia should not be too high or the cornea should not be conical.
Domestic authoritative experts prompted the risk
100 percent efficacy is nonsense
For the British health department's warning, China's relevant departments to reflect a relatively tepid. The head of the publicity department of Tongren Hospital said that the hospital's ophthalmologists learned of the reporter's intention to interview that it is not good to take a position, and it is not convenient to disclose the hospital's relevant data. CCA Complaints and Legal Affairs Department, Wang Qian, director of the Department of the reporter said he worked in the Department for several years, has not received a case of such complaints, as for the reasons, he said he is not clear.
But Zhao Jialiang, a domestic ophthalmology authority and chairman of the Chinese Medical Association's ophthalmology branch, which is a purely academic organization, and director of the eye research center at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, said in an interview yesterday that there are indeed risks.
Zhao Jialiang said, "It is a better means of correcting vision, but it is not perfect, there will be complications or failure." And the most serious consequence is complete blindness of the eyes. According to Director Zhao: of the 1.5 million people who undergo the procedure each year in China, the failure rate is about 5 percent.
"The so-called 100 percent efficacy and lack of any complications in the advertisements of some medical institutions are pure nonsense? Elective surgery is a knife in the healthy cornea, so I especially want to remind patients not to blindly believe in the ads, and must recognize its risks." Director Zhao concluded with an aggravated tone.
■ Keywords: laser vision correction surgery
Laser vision correction surgery is the use of laser to remove a part of the cornea? smoked thus changing the refractive error and correcting the defective eye crystal. This surgery has been introduced in China since 1993, and there are now more than 500 machines and equipment for this surgery in the country.
■ Tips: laser correction requirements are relatively high
It is understood that this treatment surgery on the machine, the doctor, the patient's physical condition and other aspects of the requirements of the higher, under the age of 18 years of age of adolescents, the eye suffers from infectious inflammation, glaucoma, cataracts, etc., or diabetes, collagen diseases and other systemic diseases of the people, should not undergo this surgical treatment.
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From World Optical Network