Departments and divisions

The main activity of the department:

• Providing qualified highly specialized care to victims with severe trauma of the visual organ and its consequences, reconstructive plastic surgery on the structures of the anterior and posterior parts of the eye.
• The main diseases, diagnosis and treatment of which is carried out by the department: damage to the structures of the eye and eyelids, traumatic cataract, subluxation and dislocation of the lens and intraocular lens, secondary post-traumatic glaucoma, traumatic retinal detachment, traumatic hemophthalmos, endophthalmitis of various etiologies, traumatic macular ruptures, strabismus after traumatic eye injury.

Main directions of work of the division:

• Application of modern methods of diagnosis of trauma injuries of various structures of the eye
• Primary and secondary surgical treatment of trauma injuries of the eye and its adnexa, eyelid plastic;
• Application of modern methods of diagnosis and removal of intraocular foreign body;
• Conservative treatment of open and closed eye injuries;
• Prevention and treatment of intraocular wound infection;
• Optic reconstructive operation on the anterior segment of the eye, including small incision surgery;
• Traumatic cataract extraction with IOL implantation, including without capsular support (use of intracapsular rings and fixants, iridoplasty in midriasis, iridodialysis, pupil ectopia, etc.);
• Surgery for secondary post traumatic glaucoma;
• Aesthetic surgery of pathology of the adnexa of the eye; improvement of methods of enucleation, ejection and treatment of anophthalmic syndrome, plastic operations on the eyelids;
• Extrascleral surgery for traumatic retinal detachment (local filling, circular pressing of sclera);
• Vitreoretinal surgery:
• traumatic dislocation of the lens or IOL in the vitreous body;
• traumatic hemophthalmia, retinal detachment;
• endophthalmitis;
• intraocular foreign bodies;
• traumatic macular detachment and epimacular membrane;
• temporary keratoprosthesis for one-stage damage of anterior and posterior segments of the eye;
• intravitreal administration;
• injection of medicinal products into the subtenon space.

Operations are performed using up-to-date surgical techniques to remove cataract and glaucoma of various forms at the Division.

• The Division has modern and professional equipment: systems «Infinity» Alcon, «Centurion» Alcon, «Stellaris» Bausch & Lomb, also operational systems «Trabectome» Neomedix and «LenSx Laser» Alcon.
• Great clinical experience of specialists of the Division and high level of diagnostic equipment (endothelial microscopy, light and ultrasonic biometry, topographic keratometry, OCT) enable to recommend the most optimal model and effect of artificial lens for each patient.
• The Division is the center of implantations of the most modern premium artificial lenses which enable to recover the maximum vision in patients with astigmatism and to provide both near and distance vision without using glasses.
• If there are shifts of an artificial crystalline humor in an eye or wrong selection of its optical power, the division uses operations directed to its replacement or additional fixing to eye tissues.
• The Division treats many cataract patients with comorbid conditions: retinal degeneration, cataracts of various etiologies, uveitis, intraocular tumors and glaucoma. Presence of specialists in different fields gives the opportunity to provide professional services to different cataract patients.
• Modern treatment of glaucoma patients is of great importance. The Division provides diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma of various forms using the newest exclusive techniques of laser non-surgical treatment and modern methods of conservative prevention using up-to-date medication.
• The Division provides antiglaucomatous operations using the device «Express Tube» that allowed to carry out successfully treatment of patients with glaucoma with high figures of intraocular pressure.
• Combined operations (phacoemulsification +antiglaucomatous operations) in patients with cataract and glaucoma are widely applied. This allows to provide the one-stage effective medical help if there are two diseases.
• The Division started to use, for the first time in Eastern Europe, the technique of trabeculectomy using the operating system «Trabectome». This technique allows performing effectively an antiglaucomatous operation at microincision 1.7 mm without section of conjunctiva and sclera, after earlier performed antiglaucomatous operations that increased quality of treatment of glaucoma patients.
• Methods of anaesthesis, developed and introduced into clinical practice of the Division, allow without pain, quickly and qualitatively to recover lost sight. The Division has wards with increased comfort.