Sudden loss of vision, a curtain across your sight, or a painful red eye with vomiting needs emergency care today. Retinal detachment and acute glaucoma both threaten permanent sight loss within hours to days.
Cataract, diabetic eye disease, retinal detachment, glaucoma and corneal transplant, at accredited hospitals across Delhi NCR.
If you have diabetes, the most valuable thing on this page is not an operation. It is that diabetic retinopathy causes no symptoms until sight is already threatened, and a yearly examination finds it while it is still treatable.
Free. No obligation. A written opinion within 48 hours.
This matters more than any operation described below, and it applies to a large share of the patients who contact us.
Retinopathy progresses silently. By the time sight blurs, bleeding or swelling at the centre of the retina has usually already occurred.
At that stage laser or injections preserve sight effectively. Once vision is lost to advanced disease, treatment stabilises rather than restores it.
This is not a separate matter from your eyes — it is the main treatment for early retinopathy.
Retinopathy is graded, and the grade determines whether you need monitoring, laser or injections. A report saying only that changes were seen is incomplete.
If you have had diabetes for several years and never had a dilated eye examination, arranging one at home is more valuable than anything we could sell you.
The conditions we are asked about most.
Clouding of the lens, the commonest eye operation performed anywhere
Including macular oedema and advanced proliferative disease
A surgical emergency where timing determines the outcome
Raised pressure damaging the optic nerve, usually painless
Keratoconus, scarring and transplant
Correctable, and best treated young
Injection therapy for the wet form
Lids, sockets and blocked tear ducts
Detailed pages for these are being written. In the meantime send your reports and you will get the same written opinion within 48 hours, from the same clinical team that reviews every case.
Most eye surgery is day case under local anaesthetic, which makes these among the shortest trips we arrange.
The clouded lens is broken up with ultrasound and removed through a small incision, and an artificial lens implanted. It takes around fifteen minutes under local anaesthetic and most patients see better within days. The operation itself varies little between good surgeons — the lens you choose is what varies.
Laser seals leaking vessels and treats areas of the retina starved of oxygen; injections into the eye reduce swelling at the macula and cause abnormal vessels to regress. Injections are given in a course over months rather than once, and that schedule can often continue near your home.
The gel filling the eye is removed and the retina repaired, often with a gas bubble or oil to hold it in place. For detachment, how quickly it is done determines how much sight returns — particularly if the central vision is still attached. Positioning face down afterwards is sometimes required and is demanding.
The damaged cornea is replaced with donor tissue, either full thickness or, increasingly, only the affected layer. Partial-thickness techniques recover faster and reject less often. Corneal tissue in India comes through regulated eye banks, and availability can affect timing.
Where drops and laser do not control pressure, surgery creates a new drainage route or implants a tube. It preserves the sight you have — it does not restore what has been lost, which is why glaucoma is about detection rather than repair. Pressure control needs lifelong monitoring afterwards.
Cataract surgery is high volume everywhere; retinal and corneal work is not. For vitrectomy and transplant, ask how many the surgeon does each year.
OCT scanning is what shows macular swelling and guides injection treatment. A unit treating diabetic eyes without it is working blind.
Premium multifocal lenses suit some patients and not others, and they carry trade-offs in night vision. A clinic that recommends the most expensive lens to everyone is selling, not advising.
Ask what lens is being recommended and why that one for your eye specifically. The answer tells you a great deal about the clinic.
Cataract surgery is generally safe but carries a small risk of infection, swelling and, rarely, retinal detachment or sight loss. Injections into the eye carry a small infection risk each time. Retinal surgery may need repeating, and cataract commonly develops afterwards. Corneal grafts can reject, sometimes years later, and require long-term steroid drops and monitoring. Ask your surgeon for their own complication rates.
Possible retinal detachment. Timing determines how much sight is saved — go to the nearest eye unit today.
Acute angle-closure glaucoma is an emergency and can destroy sight within hours.
There is no benefit in operating early. When it interferes with reading, driving or work is the right time.
Both worsen surgical outcomes and retinopathy. Stabilising them first improves everything that follows.
Anti-VEGF injections are given over many months. We will set up the plan and let you take most of the course near home.
Eye care is a specialty where much of the treatment is better delivered close to where you live. We will tell you which parts genuinely need the journey.
A patient travelling for cataract surgery in both eyes.
When it interferes with what you want to do — reading, driving, working, recognising faces. There is no benefit in operating early, and the old advice about waiting until it is ripe is outdated too. It is a quality-of-life decision, and you are the one who should make it.
Standard monofocal lenses give excellent distance vision with glasses for reading, and they suit most people. Multifocal lenses reduce dependence on glasses but can cause haloes and glare at night, which some patients find difficult. Toric lenses correct astigmatism. The right answer depends on your eye and your priorities, not on price.
Yes, in two ways. Your retina must be assessed before cataract surgery, because surgery can worsen existing macular swelling. And good sugar control before and after improves healing and reduces infection risk. Diabetic patients need their retina followed for life regardless of the cataract.
Anti-VEGF drugs injected into the eye reduce swelling at the macula and cause abnormal new vessels to regress. They work well but are given as a course over many months, not once. We usually establish treatment here and arrange for the rest of the course near your home.
Very. If the central vision is still attached, prompt surgery has a good chance of preserving it; once the centre detaches, the outcome is considerably worse even after successful repair. A curtain across the vision, a shower of new floaters or flashing lights needs same-day assessment.
It can be, sometimes years later, which is why long-term steroid drops and monitoring are needed. Partial-thickness techniques, which replace only the diseased layer, reject less often and recover faster than full-thickness grafts. Redness, pain, light sensitivity or reduced vision needs urgent review at any time after the graft.
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