Glaucoma service of CPEH is one of the most
well equipped centres anywhere in India. All the work up rooms of
the general OPD are equipped with Applanation Tonometer for accurate
measurement of IOP in every OPD patient. The Glaucoma Clinic has in
its possession the Pascal Dynamic tonometer & Perkin’s hand held
Tonometer for more accuracy and convenience. The clinic has two
Humphrey’s visual field analyser, Single, three and four mirror,
Sussman's -indentation Gonioscopes, Topcon’s Glaucoma imaging
OCT(one is Zeiss HD out OCT, other is Revo 60 OCT,Optopol) & Carl
Zeiss’s Yag laser iridotomy machine.
Regular Trabeculectomy, Trab with MitomycinC & Releasable sutures
are routinely done here. Combined Phaco-Trab and Regular surgical &
laser PI & Ahmed’s Glaucoma Valve & Express shunt surgery in
indicated patients are also done here.
The centre has recently completed a study on Travanoprost in
collaboration with Alcon Laboratories, India.
Dr Pronob Kalita, MBBS, MS and a fellow from Arvind Eye Hospitals,
Coimbatore is in charge of the Glaucoma clinic
The centre is now equipped with surgical Gonio lens for modern
Glaucoma Surgery with isent.
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