Glaucoma Services

Glaucoma Treatment

Are you over 40 years of age? If so, we recommend you to get regular eye checkups to screen for glaucoma and vision loss. Here are some of the most modern optical techniques we use to treat glaucoma successfully.

Glaucoma is an eye disease that gradually damages your optic nerve. The optic nerve provides visual information to your brain from your eyes.

Glaucoma is an eye condition caused by a gradual deterioration of the optical nerve that can ultimately lead to blindness if not treated properly.

Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Glaucoma

Doctors believe that the following factors may lead to glaucoma:

• Blocked or limited drainage in your eye
• Medications, such as corticosteroids or dilating eye drops
• Lack of or reduced blood flow to your optic nerve

Typical symptoms associated with glaucoma include:

• Sudden decrease or transient loss of vision
• Intermittently seeing rainbow coloured halos
• Double vision
• Intractable headaches
• Pupillary abnormalities such as a difference in the size of the pupils

Glaucoma is usually treated by lowering your intraocular pressure. Treatment may include prescription eye drops, laser treatment, oral medications, surgery, or a combination of these, depending upon the severity of your condition.

If you are looking for glaucoma treatment in Kolkata, you are in the right place. At Netralayam, we aim to provide suitable treatment for glaucoma.

• Goldmann Applanation Tonometry

  This is one of the most accurate optical techniques used to measure intraocular pressure.

• Pachymetry

  This is a simple, comfortable test used to measure the thickness of the corneas.

• Humphrey Visual Field Analysis

  In this technique, the Humphrey field analyzer (HFA) tool is used to measure the extent of the human visual field.

• OCT for Ganglion Cell Complex and RNFL

  Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-contact optical technique that permits imaging and measurement of the Ganglion Cell Complex and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)

• Ultrasound Biomicroscopy

  UBM is a technique used for imaging of the anterior segment of the eye.

• Trabeculectomy Surgery

  It is a surgical procedure for lowering pressure inside the eye. This procedure is considered the gold standard in glaucoma surgery.

• Glaucoma Valve Surgery

  This procedure is used device which has a valve which opens up to drain excess fluid from the eye to an external reservoir.

• Pediatric Glaucoma Surgery

  Glaucoma surgery performed on children is known as pediatric glaucoma surgery. External Trabeculotomy and goniotomy are the most common forms of pediatric glaucoma surgery.