Amblyopia

People experiencing vision problems like sudden onset diminution of vision or painful loss of vision or transient ischemic attacks, double vision, headache associated with nausea and vomiting, peripheral field loss or unexplained loss of vision can benefit from these services.

1. Optic Neuritis: Inflammation of the optic nerve, often associated with multiple sclerosis but can occur due to other reasons as well.
2. Papilledema: Swelling of the optic nerve head due to increased intracranial pressure, often seen in conditions like hydrocephalus or brain tumors.
3. Ischemic Optic Neuropathy: Reduced blood flow to the optic nerve, leading to vision loss. It can be arteritic (related to giant cell arteritis) or non-arteritic.
4. Third, Fourth, and Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsies: These involve weakness or paralysis of the muscles controlled by these cranial nerves, leading to double vision (diplopia) and abnormal eye movements.
5. Myasthenia Gravis: An autoimmune disorder affecting neuromuscular transmission, causing weakness in the muscles that control eye movements.
6. Neurodegenerative Diseases: Conditions like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or multiple system atrophy can have manifestations in the visual system.
7. Brain Tumors: Tumors affecting the brain can compress or affect the optic nerves or other visual pathways.
8. Ocular Motor Disorders: Conditions affecting eye movement control, like nystagmus (involuntary eye movement), strabismus (misalignment of the eyes), etc.
9. Neuro-ophthalmic manifestations of systemic diseases: Conditions like diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disorders, and infections that affect the visual system due to their impact on the nervous system or vasculature.
10. Drug toxicity: including but not limited to alcohol induced toxicity, ethambutol and isoniazid (used for tuberculosis) toxicity, hydroxychloroquine toxicity etc.

Our team of expert doctors are trained right from basics to advanced technology and therefore thorough and detailed evaluation of pupil reaction, colour vision, dilated fundus examination, examination of optic nerve with slit lamp biomicroscopy, optical coherence tomography of optic nerve head and visual field analysis is done.

Treatment options may include medications, vision therapy, or in some cases, coordination with other specialists like neurologists or neurosurgeons for comprehensive care. We have visiting neurosurgeon for comfort of our patients. Some diseases may require admission and close monitoring and our hospital provides complete indoor care and has fully functional ICU.

It’s helpful to bring your medical history, a list of current medications, any previous test results, and your insurance information to facilitate the consultation.

Depending on the condition, regular follow-up visits may be recommended to monitor progress and adjust the treatment plan if needed.