The Republican Specialized Eye Microsurgery Scientific and Applied Medical Center convened an international symposium inviting medical eye experts from the USA, Great Britain, Switzerland and Uzbekistan.
The centre director, Azamat Yusupov: “This year the symposium is quite different organized in a form of a scientific-practical lecture. The lectures are given by well-known professors working in the world's most prestigious clinics and universities.”
The British professor, Lyndon Da Cruz, shared his 20-year including the procedure of a series of successful retinal transplantations.
"That type of surgery is an extremely complicated process. We could transplant all parts of the eye except the retina. This is a truly revolutionary practical examination. In the report, it was said that two retinal transplant patients were under medical observation for 18 months. Earlier, we used to say that it was impossible. As a result of many years of scientific research, it has been proven that it is possible. Now we plan to study how these laboratories are organized and introduce them in Uzbekistan. If this practice is used in our country, patients who have lost their vision due to diseases related to the retina will get a chance to see again," Azamat Yusupov stressed.
Linda Lem, American professor, explained her lecture about the achievements of telemedicine, artificial intelligence and robotic ophthalmology in the treatment of eye diseases.
"Digital medicine is very important to ophthalmology, not just telemedicine, but the increasing role of how we use artificial intelligence to diagnose important features in images. For example, it is possible to diagnose diabetes, which is a big problem in Uzbekistan, to detect diseases of the retina, as well as to pre-diagnose features such as cardiovascular risk and dementia with the help of artificial intelligence. includes the use of predictive modelling. Let's say we look at a retinal image and can tell how old the patient is, whether they're male or female, and how likely they are to have heart disease or even brain problems like dementia. I also want to talk about the role of robotics in terms of surgery. Robots can help us perform safer surgery because, for example, surgeons have tremors, and robots can help calm the tremors so that we don't move during surgery. Also, artificial intelligence will be useful in determining whether retinopathy is present in premature babies, and the role of robotics will become an integral part of medicine in surgery."