Glaucoma Services

Glaucoma diagnosis includes
Thorough Slit-lamp examination under high magnification.
Non-contact Tonometry and Applanation Tonometry.
Gonioscopy – To measure and document the crucial findings of the angle structures in the eye.
Optic Disc Head Evaluation – We  use the high magnification stereoscopic disc evaluation using 90D and 78D lenses.
Perimetry – It is a subjective test to evaluate and quantify and document the extent of vision loss. In this test, each eye is separately shown about 250 points of light at varying intensity and the patient has to press the buzzer whenever he/she perceives the light. At the end, we get a printed report that describes:
a. Which points were not seen?
b. Which points were seen?
c. What was the intensity of light at which the points were seen?

This data is then compared with that from normal age and sex matched population. This also acts as the baseline test to compare against the future tests. We which is a very patient friendly interactive system.

OCT – use the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) from Zeiss Germany to evaluate the details of the optic nerve head. This high end scanning system gives us excellent scans of the optic nerve head in a few seconds.