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| The department was started by Dr S.S Badrinath, founder, Sankara Nethralaya and a vitreo retinal surgeon of international repute and has remained over decades, the busiest vitreo retinal unit in India, providing the most advanced care not only to patients from different parts of the country but from neighbouring countries as well. |
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Director: Dr Pramod Bhende
Location: Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai
E mail id: drpb@snmail.org |
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Deputy Director: Dr Muna Bhende
Location: Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai
E mail id: drmuna@snmail.org |
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| Chennai Centre |
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| Consultants: |
Dr Lingam Gopal |
| Dr Girish Shiva Rao |
| Dr Dhanashree Ratra |
| Dr Rajiv Raman |
| Dr Chetan Rao |
| Dr Pradeep S |
| Dr Vinata Muralidharan |
| Dr Suganeswari G |
| Dr Jaya Prakash V |
| Dr Charanya C |
| Dr Raaja Ganesh M |
| Dr Janani Srinivasan |
| Dr Arkaprava Pradhan |
| Dr Preethi P |
| Dr Zubin D’ Souza |
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| Kolkata Centre |
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| Consultants: |
Dr Rupak Roy |
| Dr Eesh Nigam |
| Dr Debmalya Das |
| Dr Kalpita Das |
| Dr Maitreyi Chowdhury |
| Dr Surbhee Chattree |
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| Touching lives, making a difference … |
The faith and trust reposed by the people in Sankara Nethralaya’s vitroretinal department, manned by highly experienced doctors is evident by the fact that the department on an average performs 500 retinal surgeries, both simple and complicated, are performed every month. |
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| A wide range of advanced processes/equipment that aid in early and accurate diagnosis |
- Wide field fundus photography with Optos; Clarus; Retcam
- Digital fundus angiography (fluorescein and Indocyanine green)
- Wide-angle angiography (Spectralis, OPTOS, Clarus)
- Ultra sonography
- Ultra sound biomicroscopy
- Optical coherence tomography- Spectral domain; Swept source
- OCT angiography
A full array of electro diagnostic services including electro retinography (full field, pattern and multifocal), electro oculography, visually evoked potential testing, specific facilities for fundus angiography and electro diagnostic work up and Retcam under general anesthesia for children. |
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| State of the Art facilities and processes that make the difference in treatment quality |
- Laser photocoagulation with 532nm green laser; 810nm diode laser ; 577 nm yellow laser ;
- Trans pupillary thermotherapy
- Cryotherapy
- Vitreo retinal surgery: Fully equipped state of art vitreo retinal surgical suites - 6 in Chennai ; 4 in Kolkata
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| Teaching and training initiatives aimed at spreading knowledge and skills |
| The department is engaged in high level knowledge dissemination initiatives and offers Fellowship programs at different levels; it has the pride of training 529 ophthalmologists in various specializations engaged in serving the visually impaired across the nation. |
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| Details of Fellowships offered by the department |
| The Department offers various long term fellowships in Vitreoretina. For details please click here.. |
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| A graphical representation of Fellows trained nationwide since inception |
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| A graphical representation of Fellows trained worldwide since inception |
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| Publications |
The department is recognized as an authoritative and trusted source of knowledge and information in the field of vitroretina and has published in-depth, peer reviewed works in medical journals which have wide acceptance as reliable references in the subject.
The massive reach of its knowledge and findings can be gauged by the fact that the department has published 1076 papers in peer reviewed journals since inception.
- 588 of them have been published in the last 10 yrs
- An average of 123 per year was published between 2022 and 2023.
Prominent areas covered by these publications include the following
- Coloboma choroid
- SN DREAMS publication on diabetic retinopathy.
- Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Retinoblastoma
- Retinal imaging
- Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
- Endophthalmitis.
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A graphical depiction of research papers from the VR department,
published in peer reviewed journals |
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| Text books published: |
| The Vitreo-Retina department is credited with bringing out in-depth works in the specialty that serve as reliable study and reference books for both students and medical practitioners. |
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| We bring below a list of the same for the benefit of our readers |
The Sankara Nethralaya Atlas of Fundus Fluorescein Angiography
Authors – Dr Nitin S Shetty, Dr Tarun Sharma, Dr Mahesh P Shanmugam, Dr Muna P Bhende, Dr Lekha Gopal, Dr Preetam Samant, Dr Lingam Gopal
Published by Ms Jaypee brothers in year 2004 |
The Sankara Nethralaya Atlas of Ophthalmic Ultrasound
Authors – Dr Muna Bhende, Dr Sriram Gopal, Dr Anuj Gogi, Dr Tarun Sharma, Dr Lingam Gopal, Dr Lekha Gopal, Dr Parveen Sen, Dr Smita Menon
Published by Ms Jaypee brothers in year 2006 |
The Sankara Nethralaya Atlas of Retinal Diseases
Authors – Dr Padmaja Kumari Rani, Dr Tarun Sharma, Dr Pradeep Susvar, Dr Ashok Rangarajan, Dr Vikas Khetan, Dr Lingam Gopal, Dr Lekha Gopal, Dr Muna Bhende, Dr Dhanashree Ratra
Published by Ms Jaypee brothers in year 2008 |
The Sankara Nethralaya Atlas of Fundus Fluorescein Angiography, 2nd edition
Authors – Dr Pukraj Rishi, Dr Ekta Rishi, Dr Tarun Sharma, Dr Muna Bhende, Dr Parveen Sen, Dr Dhanashree Ratra, Dr Lingam Gopal
Published by Ms Jaypee - Highlights Medical Publishers in year 2013 |
The Sankara Nethralaya Atlas of Ophthalmic Ultrasound and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy, 2nd edition
Authors – Dr Muna Bhende, Dr Harshali Kamat, Dr Tandava Krishna, Dr Shantha B, Dr Parveen Sen, Dr Vikas Khetan, Dr Suchitra Pradeep
Published by Ms Jaypee brothers in year 2013 |
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| Key initiatives towards knowledge dissemination: |
| Various public awareness programs related to Diabetic Retinopathy and Retinopathy of Prematurity have been conducted successfully apart from the yearly Retina Summit which is received very well among the ophthalmic fraternity. The Consultants of the department participate regularly in local, regional, national and international conferences. |
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| Honours and recognitions |
| The Bhagwan Mahavir VR services is proud to be served by 7 consultants who were adjudged as the best outgoing fellows in their respective batches. The consultants at the department have been awarded the best of session, overall best paper or best poster awards and travel grants in many national and international meetings including the Uveitis society of India, Vitreo retinal society of India, All India Ophthalmologic society, American Academy of ophthalmology and many state, subspecialty and regional meetings over the past few years. More recently, Dr Lingam Gopal received the Lifetime achievement award from SNEC, Singapore and the achievement award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr Pramod Bhende received the achievement award from the Asia Pacific association of Ophthalmology. Dr Rajiv Raman received the achievement award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology, runner up for the BMJ best research paper award, Late Dr. B.N.Shrivastava & late (Mrs.) Sarandulari Shrivastava Award from the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes In India. In the last AIOC meeting in Jaipur, Dr Muna Bhende and Dr Ekta Rishi received the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology platinum and gold awards respectively. Dr Pukhraj Rishi won the CN Shroff award for contribution to posterior segment work, and Dr Vikas Khetan won the best reviewer of IJO award. |
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| Professional training to enhance knowledge and skills |
- Dr Pukhraj Rishi completed a 1 year ICO Helmerich Fellowship in ocular oncology services at the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia
- Dr Pradeep Susvar spent 1 month in the vitro-retinal department at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital observing surgeries performed for AMD and high myopia
- Dr Vikas Khetan underwent a 1 year training in the department of pediatric ophthalmology and ocular genetics at the Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia in genotype-phenotype correlation
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