Ophthalmology

Our Department of Ophthalmology offers a complete examination of eyes focused on prevention against occurrence of cataract, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. We carry out control examinations for patients with high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus.

Anamnesis

Family and personal ophthalmology anamnesis

Eye allergic disorders – examination and treatment

Acute or chronic eye disorders

Physical examination

Intraocular pressure measuring

Why do we measure intraocular pressure?

The so-called intraocular fluid constantly fills the internal part of an eye. In a healthy eye the intraocular fluid adequately flows out through the channel between cornea and iris. This maintains normal intraocular pressure in the eye.

If the outflow of intraocular fluid slows down or production of intraocular fluid is higher, it may cause increased intraocular pressure. Thus, the high intraocular pressure may induce glaucoma disease.

Dioptre measuring and prescription of dioptric glasses

Short-sightedness

Short-sightedness (myopia) may have two reasons. The lens shows either increased refrangibility and the beams of light, which pass through it, fall on the retina improperly (they cross each other before they fall on the retina), or the eye does not have perfect spherical shape - it is longer - and this way the track of the beams is shorter. Therefore, the beams do not fall in one point of the retina (the point is behind it). The person is short-sighted, but may also suffer combination of these two problems.

Far-sightedness

Actually, far-sightedness (hypermetropia) is a complete opposite of short-sightedness. Refrangibility of the lens is lower with this eye defect (the beams of light cross imaginably behind the retina). Another reason may be again irregularity of spherical shape – in this case, the ball of the eye is shortened in the direction of the beams going through.

Colour perception examination

The disorder of colour perception is called daltonism. It is classified by seriousness:

Complete colour blindness: Patient perceives only shades of grey.

Partial colour blindness: Disorder of perception of some colours (partial or complete).

Examination of the front segment of the eye and eye ground

The front segment of the eye includes all external parts of the eye - one third of the eye, which is visible. The front part of the eye includes cornea, conjuctiva, iris, and lens, but also the area around the eye - eyelashes and eyelids.

Examination of the eye ground is a method by means of which the physician may see the rear part of your eye. In the rear part of the eye there are retina, optic nerve, and blood vessels.

Glaucoma consultancy

What is glaucoma consultancy? Glaucoma is a disease with degeneration and necrosis of optic nerve. Since the optic nerve contains all information on images which fall in our eye, its damage results in partial or complete loss of eyesight. The main cause of glaucoma and degeneration of optic nerve is increased intraocular pressure. Glaucoma may be treated, but it must be discovered in time. Any degenerative changes in the optic nerve are already irreversible.

Consulting results, questions of clients

Genetic examination focused on eyes within GenScan

Macular degeneration - loss of eye cells perceiving light

Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) belongs among the most frequent causes of blindness of old people. In advanced countries it affects 10-15 % of the population 60 years and over. ARMD constantly grows with the lengthening of the age of patients.

According to current clinical studies some 43% - 70% cases of macular degeneration (loss of eye cells perceiving light) in the population is caused by polymorfismus of the gene for H factor (CHFR2). Genetic predispositions increase the risk of disease by up to 270%. Disclosure of a higher risk may lead to timely and consistent prevention.

Tested genes in GenScan analysis: