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The Department of Children Eye Microsurgery and Functional Rehabilitation
The Department of Children Eye Microsurgery and Functional Rehabilitation provides high-quality medical care for little patients from Russia and abroad. The Department’s specialists use the most up-to-date standards and are particularly well positioned to provide assistance to children of any age, including premature babies.
Our specialists have developed original methods for the diagnosis and treatment of eye accommodation disorders in children with myopia, hyperopia, and strabismus, which are successfully implemented into clinical practice.
Every year our surgeons perform more than 23,000 surgical procedures for children
Specialists of the Department are highly experienced in:
- optico-reconstructive surgical treatment of congenital and post-traumatic pathology of the anterior eye segment, using various methods of the artificial lens fixation: intracapsular, capsular and ciliary sulcus as well as extracapsular fixation in cases of the absence of adequate capsule support (ectopia or coloboma of the lens, lenticonus, lentiglobus, etc.)
- microinvasive vitreoretinal surgery for congenital abnormalities of the posterior eyeball structures (PPGST, ERF, MO), retinopathy of prematurity 4-5 St, retinal detachments of various etiology
- correction of various types of strabismus and nystagmus for therapeutic and cosmetic purposes, including the use of combined surgical techniques or by chemodenervation (botulinum toxin injection)
- pleopto-orthoptic treatment aimed to prevent amblyopia, strabismus and accomodation disorders
- comprehensive treatment of the retina and optic nerve dystrophies, such as hereditary forms of retinal abiotrophy, using irrigation therapy and catheterization of the retrobulbar space, aimed to stabilize or even improve visual functions
- treatment of corneal ectasia - keratoconus, keratoglobus
- comprehensive eye care for inflammatory eye diseases, including therapeutic and surgical treatment (uveitis, chorioretinitis, eye injuries)
- comprehensive treatment of myopia