Our Retina Specialist is compassionate and conscientious in providing retinal care to our patients, with the goal of improving eyesight and preventing loss of vision.
Our retinal specialists care for a variety of medical and surgical retinal diseases including:
* Age Related Macular Degeneration
* Diabetic Retinopathy
* Retinal Tears and Detachments
* Vascular Occlusions
* Macular Hole
* Macular Pucker and Uveitis
Our hospital have the latest diagnostic and therapeutic services including:
* Retinal photography
* Optical coherence tomography
* * Laser photocoagulation
* intravitreal injections
Medical Retina
- The medical retina is a broad terminology that covers many retinal conditions that can be treated with medications or lasers
- All the conditions that do not need surgery can otherwise be considered medical retinal issues.
Common medical retina problems:
- Diabetic retinopathy.
- Retinal artery / venous occlusions. ( CRAO/BRAO & CRVO/BRVO)
- Age related macular degeneration. (DRY/WET)
- Enteral serous retinopathy.
- Hereditary/genetic retinal disorders.
- Drug toxicities like hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), ethambutol & others.
Treatment options:
- Control of underlying systemic diseases.
- Oral and topical ( eye drops ) medications.
- Retinal LASERs.
- Intravitreal Injections.
aser Treatment
Retinal Lasers
- For treating retinal diseases the most commonly used laser is the green LASER/ retina laser (532nm, double frequency Nd:YAG Laser)
- Different types of lasers are used for treating different eye diseases. Only some LASERs are used for the correction of numbers or the more commonly understood LASIK
- colour.
Description of retinal injections:
- Retinal injections is a procedure of injecting the required medicine into the GEL (vitreous) of the eye.
Common indications of intravitreal injections:
- Wet age related macular degeneration (Wet ARMD) – CNVM, Polyps
- Diabetic retinopathy: diabetic macular oedema
- Vascular occlusions: branch retinal vein occlusion and central retinal vein occlusion.
- Infections/endophthalmitis.
- Tumours.
Surgical Retina
- The surgical retina is a broad terminology for diseases of the vitreous and/or retina for which the primary management is vitreoretinal surgery
- In addition, some medical retinal conditions may eventually need surgery.
- many of the surgical retinal conditions are emergencies and the doctor may advise surgery at the earliest. however, there is no need to panic, as a majority of them can be managed well with modern day vitreoretinal surgical techniques.
- for conditions like retinal detachment, intraocular infection (endophthalmitis), posteriorly dislocated/ dropped nucleus/retained lens matter, time is the essence. prompt surgical intervention is the only way to save vision in these patients.
Common surgical retina conditions:
- Retinal Detachment
- Vitreous haemorrhage
- Macular Hole
- Epiretinal membrane/macular pucker
- dislocated cataract fragments/intraocular lens with IOL implantation