Glaucoma

Glaucoma Department is having Experience 25+ years, and performed over 5,534 Glaucoma surgeries.
Our expertise will assure and help you early detection and treatment, you can often protect your eyes against serious vision loss.

 

Glaucoma is a group of diseases that damage the eye’s optic nerve ( the nerve which carries information from the eye to the brain ) and can result in vision loss and blindness. It is the second-leading cause of blindness (behind macular degeneration and behind cataracts). If you sort out Glaucoma problem immediately, it may save remaining vision now!!.

 

 

We request you to communicate the following messages that can help prevent vision loss in people at higher risk:

1. Glaucoma often has no early symptoms.
2. Talk to your Family members. Get a comprehensive dilated eye examination every 1–2 years.
3. Early detection, treatment, and follow-up care are key to preventing vision loss and blindness

 

Performance of Glaucoma  Department , Sankar Foundation Eye Institute
Year	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018 Till 31 March	Grand Total
Number of surgeries	50	149	275	290	260	342	361	432	364	286	432	257	413	320	255	367	194	230	211	46	5534

 

Glaucoma Department of Sankar Foundation serves patients coming from Northern Andhra and bordering Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.

The Facilities and the up-gradation of skills are the strength of our department:

1. Humphrey Filed Analyser
2. Optical Coherence Tomography
3. Stereoscopic Disc Photography
4. Perkins Tonometer
5. Ultra Sound Bio-microscopy
6. Nd:YAG Laser
7. Diode Laser

In most cases, Glaucoma is associated with higher-than-normal pressure inside the eye — a condition called ocular hypertension. But it also can occur when intraocular pressure (IOP) is normal. If untreated or uncontrolled, Glaucoma first causes peripheral vision loss and eventually can lead to blindness. And because most cases of glaucoma have few or no early symptoms, about half of patients suffering with glaucoma don't know they have it.

 

How long does it take to become blind from glaucoma?

Glaucoma is usually a slow disease. Untreated glaucoma takes on an average of 15 years to progress from early damage to blindness with an IOP of 21 to 25 mmHg, 7 years with 25 to 30 mmHg, and 3 years with a pressure more than 30 mmHg. Thus, most eye doctors will treat a pressure over 30 without signs of damage.

 

If you sort out Glaucoma problem immediately
it may save remaining vision now!!.

 

Our staff and Glaucoma surgeons will provide you with additional information you would love to know more about Glaucoma treatment and answer any of the questions you may have.

For treatment for urgent, sight-threatening problems and for issues that cannot wait for a routine appointment with your Ophthalmologist, you can come directly to any one of our Institutes in the list: Click Here

 

For Eye Emergencies , 24 X 7 365 days reach Our Main Institute at Door No. 19-50, Sai Madhava Nagar, Naiduthota, Vepagunta, Visakhapatnam -530047.

Our Main Institute General Working Hours: Monday to Saturday and from 9 am to 5 pm, except on public holiday.

 

You can also get information from our telephone helpline Ph.no. 8008222461, 9121005733 , 9154761794, 9121005733, 0891-2891100 / 11.
At busy times, we might not be able to answer your call straight away - please bear with us and call back a little later if this happens.

To fix an appointment with our Glaucoma Specialists, Click Here