Glokom Tedavisinde İrise Yönelik Lazer Uygulamaları

Pediatric age is the most important period for preventive eye care services and research. Vision loss in this period could cause a long\udlife without sight and also significant financial and moral losses, in terms of people and society. Rational screening programs may\udreduce vision loss in childhood and this issue increases the value of the subject. Retinopathy of prematurity, congenital/infantile\udcataracts and glaucoma, optic nerve and retinal pathologies, refractive errors, amblyopia, and strabismus are the major clinical pictures\udcausing visual loss in childhood. Using the epidemiological data, it could be estimated that every year approximately two to three\udthousand children suffer an ophthalmologic disease that causes significant visual loss. Regarding the refractive errors and amblyopia,\udit could be estimated that hundreds of thousands of children need ophthalmological follow-up in the country. For the timely treatment\udof these pathologies, a couple of short eye examination programs seem more realistic. Childhood vision loss in the country could be\udreduced, by informing pediatricians and family physicians and by proper guiding of the public opinion. Effective eye screening could\udbe achieved with the implementation of simple methods like red reflex/Brückner test with ophthalmoscopy, or simultaneous\ud(binocular) retinoscopy and ophthalmoscopy of both eyes. Screening programs could be spread throughout the country by appropriate\udtraining of the physicians in the health institutions of the country. Screening programs will contribute to reduce the rate of visual\uddisability by disseminating ophthalmologic practices throughout the country. (Turk J Ophthalmol 2013; 43: 195-201