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Sankara Nethralaya

Cornea - Brief History

The C J Shah Cornea Services at Sankara Nethralaya, established in 1978 is a centre dedicated to the management of corneal disorders. The department consists of 15 well-trained corneal surgeons including Chennai and Kolkata. The departments are well equipped with instrumentation and technology to provide state-of-the-art care for patients suffering from a wide variety of corneal disorders. The departments have an elaborate academic and surgical training programme for fellows in cornea and external eye diseases. Research programme encompasses both basic and clinical work involving corneal diseases and transplantation. In a year in Chennai branch, about 45,000-50,000 outpatients are seen and about 3,500 surgeries are performed in the Chennai center. A total of 1200-1300 refractive surgeries and 650-700 corneal transplants are done each year.

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Dr Rama Rajagopal

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Dr N Radhika

Deputy Director

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Dr Prema Padmanaban

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Dr Sudhir R R

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Dr Iyer Geetha Krishnan

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Dr Bhaskar Srinivasan

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Dr Niveditha Narayanan

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Dr Shweta S Agarwal

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Dr Meena Lakshmipathy

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Dr Varsha Bhambhani

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Dr Aditi Johri

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Dr Mona Bhargava

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Dr Mihir A Lagvankar

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Dr Raj Shekhar Paul

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Dr Sunita Pandey

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Clinical Services

The department caters to the efficient diagnosis and management of a wide range of diseases:

  • Congential and hereditary corneal disorders
  • Corneal and scleral infections
  • Ectatic corneal disorders – Keratoconus, Terriens marginal degeneration, Pellucid Marginal degeneration
  • Immunologic disorders of cornea
  • Peripheral ulcerative keratitis and other diseases
  • Ocular surface disorders including severe dry eye, blepharitis, ocular allergies, chemical injuries, Stevens Johnson syndrome, ocular surface tumors and other diseases.
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Investigations and Diagnostic Services

1. Corneal Topography

(PENTACAM,TMS-4,TOPOLYZER,CORVIS) - Evaluates shape and power of the corneal surface. The Pentacam, based on the Schiempflug photography is unique in that it provides invaluable information that other instruments are incapable of measuring.

2. Confocal Microscopy

Live microscopic imaging of corneal disorders

3. Pachymetry

Measurement of corneal thickness using ultrasound

4. Aberrometry

( I-Trace Aberrometer, Allegro Analyser) Measures the optical aberrations of the eye

5. Specular Microscopy

Study of the corneal endothelium (cells that maintain corneal clarity)

6. Anterior – Segment OCT

(Visante/ Casia)Helps identify depth of corneal scarring/lesions on the cornea, corneal thickness, anterior chamber details

7. Keratograph

Invaluable tool in dry eye work up

8. Tear Osmolarity

Measures tear osmolarity helping detect dry eye

9. Meibography and Lipiview

10. Anterior segment digital photography

Photographic documentation of various corneal conditions for baseline documentation, and monitoring effects of therapy as well as to monitor progression of the disease in any ectatic disorder.

11. Immunohistopathlogicial diagnosis of various immune disorders

Surgeries

The department offers most recent advances in the field of corneal surgery which include:

Penetrating Keratoplasty (PK):

Optical, tectonic and therapeutic with anterior segment reconstruction, combined with SFIOL, Vitreo-retinal procedures and Paediatric PK

Lamellar corneal surgeries:

Including Automated Lamellar Therapeutic Keratoplasty (ALTK), Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK), Descemet's Stripping EndoKeratoplasty (DSEK) and Descemet’s Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK)

Pterygium surgery

Corneal Tattooing

Management of wide range of ocular surface tumor including surgery and chemotheraphy

Comprehensive management of SJS/ chemical injuries /ocular allergies/ ocular surface disorders

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The Ocular Surface Clinic, one of the first of its kind in the country, caters to a wide variety of surface disorders including dry eye, ocular allergies, chemical injuries and Stevens Johnson syndrome. Started in 2005, the clinic offers comprehensive care and makes available the entire spectrum of treatment modalities for ocular surface disorders under one roof. It is the only centre in the world which performs all kinds of keratoprosthesis (artificial cornea) surgeries. 350 Keratoprosthesis surgeries have been performed so far.

1. Amniotic membrane transplantation

2. Recurrent Pterygium surgeries

3. Stem cell transplantation

4. limbal autografts and allografts

5. Mucous membrane grafting

6. Artificial cornea (Keratoprosthesis)

  • Boston Type 1 keratoprosthesis and its variants
  • Modified Osteo-Odonto Keratoprosthesis
  • oston Type 2/Lucia Type 2 Keratoprosthesis
  • Tibial keratoprosthesis
  • Auro Keratoprosthesis

Training and courses offered

2 years clinical fellowship in Cornea and ocular surface disorders


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Shorterm observership for ocular surface (1 week to 3 months)


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