The new definition will be more than 1-3 amblyopia children " Rehabilitate "

The new definition will be more than 1-3 amblyopia children " Rehabilitate "
The new definition will be more than 1-3 amblyopia children " Rehabilitate "
It is reported ' The intersection of reporter and bright the intersection of reporter and Du WeiWei Jiang) According to the standard of the current " ophthalmology " textbook, once the correction eyesight of the children under the age of 8 is dropped to under 0.9, can be diagnosed as amblyopia. On July 7, the reporter learns from the People's Hospital of Wuhan University, the credit of Chinese Medical Association ophthalmology department will be just suspected of being involved in this one " magnified "ly Diagnostic standard make significance revision. The expert expects, this measure will " rehabilitate " for over 1/3 of the amblyopia children in our country . The ophthalmology centre of the People's Hospital of Wuhan University smelts to ophthalmology representative, as the middle and southern area of the red professor in week, have participated in this revision. She introduces, amblyopia is that one kind influences the eyes disease which looks at function development seriously. Before this, our country will squint the amblyopia diagnostic standard made with child's ophthalmology group to adopt the credit of Chinese Medical Association ophthalmology department of 1987, the ophthalmology department does not have organic disease to check, correct eyesight and is lower than 0.9 and can be made a definite diagnosis of, need to accept a series of treatment. According to this standard, the children of our country regard morbidity as 3%~4% weakly, nearly 20 million children suffer from amblyopia. But the ophthalmology expert finds, the smaller children's age is, the higher the morbidity of amblyopia is, the higher the cure rate is; Increase with age, the lower the amblyopia morbidity is, the lower its cure rate is. Domestic a large number of more than centre study, find children age and eyesight have close relevance too. At the beginning of July, the credit of Chinese Medical Association ophthalmology department will be squinted and redefined amblyopia with child's ophthalmology group at this point: Under the age of 3 children correct eyesight to be 0.5 below, 4 year old lower than 0.6 5 year old, 6 year old lower than 0.7 7 year old. It is reported, this diagnostic standard will be adopted in the " ophthalmology " teaching material of new edition.


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