PATIENT CARE
SUNDAY, 24 JANUARY 2010
SUNETRA EYE CENTER , KOLKATA
First Anniversary of Visiting Consultant Program – in Kolkata
Dr Srinivas K Rao is the Head of the Cornea Service at Sunetra Family Eye Care Center in Kolkata. The Center provides specialized corneal care to patients in the North- Eastern parts of India, in the Cornea Clinic started and conducted by Dr Srinivas K Rao, 1 year ago. Dr Rao travels to Kolkata for a weekend every 2 months to see patients with complex corneal problems, perform surgery for those who require the s ame and c ond u c t s teaching sessions for the postg raduatesandCorneal specialists in the region – on Corneal, Cataract, and LASIK related issues – to help develop these areas in the region.
PTERYGIUM threatening vision in a patient’s eye
A PTERYGIUM extends onto the cornea and can result in poor vision for the patient.
A pterygium is a very common condition in Indian conditions – it consists of an overgrowth of the conjunctiva onto the cornea. If untreated it can result in poor vision for the patient. The current gold standard procedure for the condition is excision and conjunctival autografting, with the NEW SUTURELESS approach using FIBRIN GLUE.
Dr Rao was one of the first in India to perform this technique in 1993 and his reports on the same in the Indian J of Ophthalmology, and Ophthalmic Surgery have one of the highest success rates described with this surgery. He performed the procedure for a patient with advanced pterygium during his recent visit to Kolkata.
PTERYGIUM threatening vision in a patient’s eye
Severe corneal shape change and astigmatism with poor vision
Excellent cosmetic and anatomic outcome of surgery