National Campaign for Prevention of Age-Related Maculopathy and Retinopathy

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Thursday, 30 January 2020

Argomento

Retina

A month of free maculopathy and age-related retinopathy check-ups throughout Italy

Prevention can really save your eyesight!
Many degenerative retinal diseases, if diagnosed early and treated appropriately, can be managed while preserving visual function in the best possible way.
From 23 January at 28 February 2020 will take place in 26 Italian centres of excellence the National Campaign for Prevention and Diagnosis of Age-Related Maculopathy and Retinopathy.
The Campaign, under the patronage of the Ministry of Health, the Municipality of Milan, IAPB Italia Onlus (International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness) and SOI (Società Oftalmologica Italiana), is organised and promoted by:
- CAMO (Centro Ambrosiano Ophthalmico)
- IRCCS - San Raffaele Hospital, Milan
- ASST H Fatebenefratelli-Sacco in Milan.

The focus of national screening is on two diseases typical of old age: the maculopathy and the senile retinopathy.

The free screeningcarried out as part of the National Campaign for the Prevention and Diagnosis of Maculopathy and Retinopathy in the Elderly, have the twofold aim of inform as accurately as possible on the risk factors and characteristics of the diseases in question, as well as to facilitating the diagnostic process.

At the 26 participating centres to the Campaign, the screenings will be conducted by highly qualified medical and nursing teams using the best technology available today.
Access to examinations is offered to citizens over 50 years of age without a previous diagnosis of maculopathy.

The centres are distributed as follows:
ABRUZZO: Chieti/Pescara
CALABRIA: Catanzaro
CAMPANIA: Eboli - Naples
LAZIO: Rome
LIGURIA: Genoa
LOMBARDY: Milan - Legnano – Varese
PIEDMONT: Alexandria – Moncalieri (To)
PUGLIA: Trani (Bt)
SARDINIA: Cagliari
SICILY: Catania
TUSCANY: Arezzo - Florence – Siena
VENETO: Padua – Villorba (Tv)