Facilities and equipment:

Ophthalmology Consultation Rooms:

Equipped with scanning units (slit lamp, optotype projector and lens box), binocular indirect ophthalmoscope, applanation tonometer, and scanning lenses (20-28-90 dioptres and 3-mirror lens).

The consultation rooms in some sections also include specific equipment: camera and monitor, retinoscope, binocular vision tests, Ishihara charts, prism bars, Lancaster screen, exophthalmometer.

Optometry rooms:

Equipped with optotype projectors and lens boxes, phoropters, autorefractometers, pneumotonometers and automated frontophotometers.

Anterior segment examinations and treatments:

  • Humphrey Automated Campimeter
  • Pachymeter
  • IOLMaster Biometer
  • Pentacam Topograph
  • Corneal specular microscopy (endothelial count)
  • Anterior segment OCT
  • Contrast sensitivity test
  • Colour test
  • Nd:YAG Laser Unit with treatment lenses (capsulotomy, iridectomy)

Posterior segment examinations and treatments

  • OCT (Zeiss and Spectralis)
  • Argon Laser Unit with treatment lenses
  • FAG
  • Electrophysiology Unit (VEP, ERG, EOG)
  • Ultrasound scanner
  • Intravitreal injection room with surgical microscope

Refractive Surgery Unit:

  • Femtosecond lasers
  • Excimer laser
  • Cross-linking unit

Corneal Transplant Unit:

  • Microkeratome
  • Tissue bench specular microscope
  • Laminar flow hood
  • Refrigerator and freezer

Operating room:

  • Surgical microscopes
    • with camera, monitor and recording system
    • with AVI surgical field inverter and Resight
    • with laser filters for surgeon and assistant
    • with intraoperative OCT
    • Phacoemulsification units
    • Vitrectomy Units with diathermy unit, silicone injector and endocular diode laser
    • Cryotherapy Unit
    • Electric Scalpel - Bipolar Coagulator
    • Dacryocystorhinostomy motor
    • Ultrasound electromyograph (Botox)

Surgical techniques and treatments

  • Cataract surgery: intraocular lens implantation (monofocal, multifocal, toric, secondary implants), Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy.
  • Cornea: corneal transplantation (penetrating keratoplasty, DALK, DSAEK, DMEK), amniotic membrane transplantation, corneal cross-linking, intracorneal rings.
  • Retina: vitrectomy and scleral surgery, intravitreal injections, argon laser treatments.
  • Oculoplastics: eyelid malpositions, tear duct obstructions, palpebral and orbital tumours.
  • Strabismus: treatment by botulinum toxin and surgery.
  • Glaucoma: iridotomy, filtering surgery, MIGS devices.
  • Refractive surgery: Lasik, PRK, phakic intraocular lenses, lensectomy with multifocal and toric lenses.

Diagnostic test series

  • Anterior segment: biometry, corneal topography, anterior segment OCT, specular microscopy.
  • Posterior segment: retinography, fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography, autofluorescence.
  • Electrophysiological tests: electroretinogram, electroculogram, visual evoked potentials.
  • Orbital imaging tests.
  • Ocular motility and binocular vision tests.
  • Glaucoma: campimetry, OCT nerve fibre layer, pachymetry.