Cornea and Refractive

The Corneal Service at our Centre provides medical and surgical care to a wide variety of corneal, external eye related diseases and anterior segment eye disorders.  Cornea and External eye diseases:

• Corneal Infections
• Eye allergies Corneal complications arising from other forms of ocular surgery Ocular surface trauma.
• Ocular surface disorders like blepharitis, meibomitis, conjunctival and scleral diseases.
• Refractive errors (nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism)
• Conjunctivitis (red eye)
• Pterygium
• Corneal dystrophies and degenerations

Surgical facilities offered by the cornea service

Corneal Transplantation:

• Penetrating keratoplasty,
• Lamellar keratoplasty
• Endothelial keratoplasty(DSAEK)
• Keratoprosthesis (Artificial cornea)
• Scleral grafting