The clinical and consultation work of the department is carried out at the units of Kyiv City Clinical Ophthalmologic Hospital “Eye Microsurgery Center” and the Ophthalmologic Unit of the NCSH “OkhMatDyt”. This year number of surgical operations performed by the staff members, accounts for 75% from the total number of those performed at the clinical bases – about 11.000 operations. The surgical intervention are performed as at the in-patient, so at the out-patient departments.
The main clinical directions are:
- Diagnosis and treatment of the pathology of visual organs in children;
- Diagnosis and treatment of the cornea diseases;
- Diagnosis and treatment of vitreoretinal pathology;
- Diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma;
- Minimal invasive surgery;
- New modes of cataract surgery including artificial lens implantation;
- Diagnosis and treatment of vascular visual organs diseases;
- Laser therapy of eye diseases;
- Oncoophthalmology;
- Studying the low radiation doses effects on visual organs;
- Developing new techniques for measuring optic aberrations;
- Developing a model of Ukrainian phacoemulsificator.