CHANDIGARH: Using a brand new method with out a further value involved, Dr Jaspreet Sukhija, an ophthalmologist on the PGI, has began running youngsters affected by cataract. The surgical procedure helps those youngsters conquer serious complications, including harmful of the optic nerves.
Dr Sukhija was awarded with the Hanumantha Reddy award for the most efficient Paediatric Ophthalmology paper on the recently concluded All-India Ophthalmology Society conference in Indore.
The nationwide conference had 1,880 submissions from all over the rustic.
Dr Sukhija, further professor on the Advanced Eye Centre, PGI, has finished a research on cataract surgical procedure in youngsters. He has carried out surgeries the use of a changed surgical method and compared it with the normal surgical procedure.
In his method of cataract, the vitreous in the posterior part of the eye isn't touched and the intraocular lens is positioned behind the posterior pill and glued with posterior pill not like the normal surgical procedure the place the intraocular lens can rotate and rub with the iris. The typical surgical procedure also leaves a lot of empty spaces which permits for proliferation of lens epithelial cells, whereas, the changed method ensures a sealed compartment leading to some of these cells being trapped and no chance of visual axis obscuration-a complication of paediatric cataract surgical procedure.
These observations were made over a long length of apply up of two years post-surgery. This method helps in retaining the constructions of the eye and on the identical time minimises the danger of lazy eye and conceivable glaucomatous damage.
“This is for the primary time that this kind of learn about has been carried out the place typical procedure has been finished in a single eye and an improvised method has been used in the different eye of youngsters with bilateral cataract,” mentioned Dr Sukhija. PGI sees more than 30 such circumstances a week.
Dr Sukhija was awarded with the Hanumantha Reddy award for the most efficient Paediatric Ophthalmology paper on the recently concluded All-India Ophthalmology Society conference in Indore.
The nationwide conference had 1,880 submissions from all over the rustic.
Dr Sukhija, further professor on the Advanced Eye Centre, PGI, has finished a research on cataract surgical procedure in youngsters. He has carried out surgeries the use of a changed surgical method and compared it with the normal surgical procedure.
In his method of cataract, the vitreous in the posterior part of the eye isn't touched and the intraocular lens is positioned behind the posterior pill and glued with posterior pill not like the normal surgical procedure the place the intraocular lens can rotate and rub with the iris. The typical surgical procedure also leaves a lot of empty spaces which permits for proliferation of lens epithelial cells, whereas, the changed method ensures a sealed compartment leading to some of these cells being trapped and no chance of visual axis obscuration-a complication of paediatric cataract surgical procedure.
These observations were made over a long length of apply up of two years post-surgery. This method helps in retaining the constructions of the eye and on the identical time minimises the danger of lazy eye and conceivable glaucomatous damage.
“This is for the primary time that this kind of learn about has been carried out the place typical procedure has been finished in a single eye and an improvised method has been used in the different eye of youngsters with bilateral cataract,” mentioned Dr Sukhija. PGI sees more than 30 such circumstances a week.
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