Ophthalmology Department

The Ophthalmology Department of Tianjin Children's Hospital is a comprehensive children's eye disease diagnosis and treatment department integrating outpatient clinics, wards, and optometry centers. It has rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of frequently-occurring, common, rare, and difficult diseases in children.

At present, there are 37 medical and technical staff in the ophthalmology department, mainly with master's degree or above (three of them have doctoral degrees).

It includes 17 doctors (2 chief physicians, 5 deputy chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 6 resident physicians), 4 technicians in the optometry department, and 16 outpatient and ward nurses.

The Department of Ophthalmology has specialties such as strabismus and ametropia, orbital diseases and eye plastic surgery, tear duct and tear apparatus diseases, ocular surface and corneal diseases, fundus diseases and ocular trauma, and rare diseases in children.

Common eye diseases in children that he specializes in diagnosis and treatment include refractive errors, strabismus, amblyopia, various types of keratoconjunctivitis, neonatal dacryocystitis, congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction, orbital and eyelid tumors, entropion and trichiasis, ptosis, meibomian gland cysts, meibomian gland dysfunction, retinopathy of prematurity, etc.

In addition, in the diagnosis and treatment of rare childhood diseases (such as retinoblastoma, retinitis pigmentosa, etc.) and systemic diseases with ocular manifestations (such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome, neurofibromatosis, diabetic retinopathy, etc.), our hospital's ophthalmology department also has the advantage of a multidisciplinary cooperation platform and rich diagnosis and treatment experience.

The featured treatment projects currently carried out include lacrimal duct irrigation, lacrimal duct probing and catheterization, entropion correction, congenital ptosis correction, strabismus correction, orbital tumor resection, meibomian gland cyst resection, Ritleng lacrimal duct insertion, etc.

Among them, neonatal tear duct probing and catheterization, congenital ptosis correction, and entropion correction have reached the domestic advanced level.

Tianjin Children's Hospital's Longyan Campus and Zhanwang Campus currently carry out children's health examination projects. Ophthalmologists will conduct special examinations based on the developmental characteristics of children of different ages to protect children's eye health.

The department actively participates in various public welfare activities, regularly conducts a series of science popularization activities every year, holds many science popularization lectures on children's myopia prevention and control, and participates in fundus screening for premature infants and free clinics for children with rare diseases.

A total of 3 books, led by Secretary Liu Wei and participated by ophthalmologists from our hospital, have been published for the public, including “Look and Health—An Eye-loving Book for Children,” “Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Rare Diseases in Children,” and “Breaking the Cocoon—Sharing Classic Cases of Rare Diseases.” Among them, “Look and Health” uses an easy-to-understand and humorous writing style with full-color illustrations to describe the basic structure of the eye and ophthalmological issues that everyone is concerned about. It is suitable for both adults and children to read.