老年性黄斑变性的防治（Prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration）.docVIP

老年性黄斑变性的防治（Prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration） Prevention and treatment of age-related macular degeneration Chinese Journal of traditional Chinese medicine, October 21, 2010 Eye Hospital - Zhou Shangkun China Academy of traditional Chinese Medicine Age-related macular degeneration, also called age-related macular degeneration, is a common cause of blindness in elderly people over the age of 50. In recent years, with the process of aging in China, the incidence of the disease has increased year by year. The disease is clinically classified as dry and wet type two, of which dampness is the most dangerous and affects approximately 90% of the visually impaired patients. In the early stage of the disease, the patient often shows progressive decline in vision, and a large number of yellow dots can be seen in the fundus. This is called glass membrane warts. These drusen is due to retinal pigment epithelial cell phagocytosis metabolites days and months multiplying results of deposition and ultimately affect brush membrane function, choroidal neovascular angiogenesis, the equivalent of fake and shoddy products, endothelial cell contact is very loose and brittle, easily caused by the rupture of Fundus Bleeding in patients with visual acuity. Senile macular degeneration patients early in front of the central dark, things look pale, decreased contrast sensitivity, reading difficulties, late because of fundus repeated hemorrhage, decrease of visual acuity, visual distortion, seriously affect the life quality of patients. The location of the disease is mostly in the macula, and the macula is the most sensitive place for human vision. Therefore, the treatment is more difficult. Here are some internationally accepted methods: Photodynamic therapy: this method is to intravenous injection of a photosensitizer called visudyne, the photosensitizer in high density lipoprotein specificity and angiogenesis in combination, then trigger specific laser generated a l