[Pay more attention to early diagnosis and intervention for patients with primary glaucoma]

Primary glaucoma is an irreversible serious blindness disease. Early diagnosis and intervention is the key measure for prevention of visual function from damage in patients with primary glaucoma. The progress of the basic and clinical research on primary glaucoma in recent years, such as classification of primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG), the risk factors of PACG, the management of PACG, the change of the optic nerve head in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), and the concept of target pressure in management of primary glaucoma, has greatly promoted the early diagnosis and intervention for the patients with primary glaucoma. By taking the measures including strengthening the continuing medical education of early diagnosis and intervention for primary glaucoma to ophthalmologists and ophthalmic residents, popularizing the knowledge of glaucoma to public, and screening the early primary glaucoma patients and suspects via the way of the public health survey, more patients with primary glaucoma will be early diagnosed and managed. Thus, the rate of blindness in glaucoma patients will decrease.