The clinic evaluates and treats patients with Glaucoma and other diseases characterised by increased pressure in the eye and/or glaucomatous atrophy of the optic nerve. It also serves as a large referral centre for the treatment of Congenital Glaucoma, a rare condition with increased eye pressure and corneal enlargement present at birth or during the first few months of life. Patients of all ages, from new-borns to the elderly are being treated.
What is glaucoma, how to manage it and what are the precautions that need to be taken What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is a group of ocular conditions where there is damage to your optic nerve(the nerve responsible for your eyesight). This is also referred to as the "silent killer of sight". Glaucoma has affected more than 70 million people worldwide, from which 10 per cent are classified as blind in both their eyes. This condition rarely shows any symptoms.
Diagnosis & Treatment
The clinic handles Primary Glaucomas, which are largely inherited, in addition to Secondary Glaucomas caused by trauma, inflammation, Diabetes, Retinal Vascular Disease and hypermature cataracts. Deviations from normal retinal nerve fibre thickness are the earliest structural changes in persons with glaucoma.
Treatment
- Medication (eye drops).
- Laser Procedures.
- Surgical procedures.
Routinely performed procedures
- Trabeculectomy.
- Trabeculectomy + Trabeculotomy.
- Trabeculectomy with anti mitotic agents like Mitomycin-c or 5-FU.
- Trabeculectomy with ologen implants.
- Valve /Tube implants.
- Combined Trabeculectomy with IOL implantation.
- Bleb needling, bleb repair/ revision.
- Non penetrating glaucoma filtering surgeries : deep sclerectomy (including laser assisted).
