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SURGERY

We practice surgeries, rooms, equipment and the highest level of staff at our headquarters.

All treatments begin with consultations and assessments to finish with the recommended treatments.

We perform all interventions in our facilities, without being referred to any other place.

CORNEA TRANSPLANT

The cornea is the transparent layer on the front of your eye.

Corneal transplantation is the surgery that is done to change the cornea through the tissue of a donor and is one of the most common transplants that are developed in the field of ophthalmology.

The patient is semi awake during the procedure.

Local anesthesia is assisted by an anesthesiologist to block pain and temporarily prevent movement of the eye muscles. You can also receive a sedative to relax if you wish.

The tissue for corneal transplantation comes from a donor who has recently died and who has previously agreed to donate their tissue.

The donated cornea is processed and analyzed in a local eye bank to verify that its use is safe in surgery.

The most common type of corneal transplant is called "Penetrating Keratoplasty". During this procedure, the surgeon removes a small round piece of the cornea. Then, the donated cornea will be sutured.

For some patients, more recent and modern techniques may be used, during which only the inner and outer layers are replaced, instead of all layers of the cornea.

At the end of the procedure the patient will be able to go home the same day of the surgery. The doctor will give you a patch for the eye in order to use it between 1 and 4 days, in order to ensure a quick recovery.

Ophthalmic drops will be prescribed to help the eye heal, as well as to prevent infection and rejection of the new tissue.

The doctor will remove the stitches in a control consultation. Some of these points can be left in place for up to a year.

LASER CORRECTION

LASIK, LASER CORRECTION WITH WAVE FRONT

The Institute offers the Lasik service, Laser Vision correction with the latest customized wavefront system - WAVE FRONT.

Laser surgery is a very simple process; The patient, after having been previously evaluated by the Ophthalmologist through our special examinations, is practiced a painless procedure that lasts only five minutes through our personalized laser system. Later he goes to the recovery room where he stays for a short time before leaving.

We deliver to the patient a Post-Operative Kit composed of UV-protected glasses that you should use as soon as you leave the clinic and two eye drops so that your recovery is totally successful. In the following days the patient goes back to a post-operative control to verify that everything is fine, thus ending our work.

We are the true pioneers in refractive surgery in Colombia for the correction of Astigmatism, Myopia, Hyperopia and Presbyopia.

We have the latest technology that eliminates the dependence on glasses and contact lenses, through an outpatient procedure that generates no pain, thinking that you forget where you leave the glasses and the discomfort of contact lenses.

Lasik with wavefront, is the personalized, effective, painless and ambulatory procedure in which we specialize to get you to obtain all the benefits of the latest technology in correction of refractive errors.

PRESBYOPIA

Laser Surgery is a solution to correct tired eyesight.

When the eyes are young, their lens is very elastic. This allows to focus well from near and far without difficulty. But once it reaches 40 years, the lens becomes hard and people notice that to read have to move more and more the document.

Many end up using one or several pairs of glasses or bifocal lenses to compensate for this aging of the eye. This condition is called Presbyopia and eventually affects all people, including those who suffer from myopia, hyperopia, cataracts or those who enjoyed good vision all their previous life.

Currently the Lasik is the most common laser technique for the correction of refractive errors. It is an extremely effective outpatient procedure that changes the shape of the cornea making it more symmetrical. LASIK is done using anesthetic drops to prevent pain during the procedure. A suction ring secures the Eye while a thin piece of tissue is created. This flap is folded and the laser treatment is done in the bed that is under this tissue.

FARSIGHTEDNESS

As we know it occurs when the cornea is too flat, or when the eye is too short, this causes the rays of light to focus behind the retina.

The person with hyperopia has difficulty focusing on nearby objects, but clearly visualizes the objects at a distance. Over the years the problem increases and nearby objects become more blurred; additionally, distant vision begins to be affected and the same thing begins to happen with distant objects.

These are the foreseen solutions:

1. Optical lenses (glasses or glasses) and contact lenses: Their function is to help focus the light bulb on the retina. These are options that are satisfactory on a cosmetic and optical level.

2. Lasik correction: It is the correction by using lasers. This procedure increases the curvature of the cornea, resulting in light focusing precisely on the retina.

3. Correction with Conductive Keratoplasty (CK): Consists in increasing the curvature of the cornea, by applying radiofrequency waves on the periphery of it, so that the rays of light fall focused on the retina.

4. Phakic Intraocular Lenses: Used in cases of high hyperopia. They are placed inside the eye, in front of the pupil, fixed to the iris.

5. Clear lens interchange with intraocular lens implant: Definitive correction of medium or high hyperopia, especially indicated in people over 50 who also suffer from presbyopia

CATARACT SURGERY

It is a procedure that is performed to remove an opaque lens (cataract) from the eye in order to improve vision.

The procedure almost always includes the placement of an artificial lens in the eye.

The normal lens of the eye is transparent (clear). As a cataract develops, the lens becomes opaque and blocks the light from entering the eye. Without enough light, you can not see clearly (blurred vision).

Cataracts are painless and develop especially in the elderly. However, sometimes, children are born with opaque lenses that are caused by infections or other problems before birth. These are called congenital cataracts.

Surgery is usually recommended for people who can not see well because of their cataracts. Adults are normally awake during the procedure. You will be given a local anesthetic to block the pain and you will be given a sedative to relax you.

Children are usually given general anesthesia so they are unconscious and can not feel pain.

HOW IS IT THE PROCEDURE

Looking through a microscope, the doctor will make a small incision in the eye and then remove the lens. This can be extracted in several ways, depending on the type of cataract you have. Two ways to do it are:

1. With surgical instruments and suction.

2. With an instrument and a machine that uses sound waves (ultrasonic energy) to break the lens and suction it. This is called phacoemulsification.

Then, an artificial lens, called an artificial intraocular lens (LIA), is usually placed to help improve vision.

The doctor will close the incision with very small sutures (stitches) or use a self-sealing method (without sutures). If sutures are placed, it may be necessary to remove them later. The surgery usually lasts less than an hour per eye.

POSTOPERATIVE

You will probably go home after surgery and then have a control test the next day.

The doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory and antibiotic eye drops to use for one or more weeks to help heal.

Make sure your hands are clean before touching your eye. Try not to get soap or water in your eye when you are taking a bath or showering during the first few days.

Take it easy. Gentle activities are better as you recover. Check with the doctor before performing any physical activity.

If you need new glasses or contact lenses, try to adapt them after you have healed completely. It is important to have a checkup consultation with the doctor.

FACOEMULSIFICATION

Phacoemulsification is a surgical technique currently used for the operation of cataracts. Its appearance dates back to the early 90s.

Steps of FACOEMULSIFICACIÓN

This technique consists of the following steps:

- Entry to the eye: which is done through a small incision of self-sealing type (most of the time does not need sutures) that has a diameter of 2.8 to 3.2 mm. Lately, phacoemulsification techniques are being developed using smaller incisions (1.5mm / 2.0mm).

- Opening of the lens capsule: the outer membrane that surrounds the lens (lens capsule) is carefully opened by its anterior face. Then, through this opening and within that "capsular bag", the fragmentation and aspiration of the lens affected by cataract will be performed.

- Phacoemulsification process: performed with an ultrasonic probe equipped with a hollow titanium needle, which vibrates longitudinally from back to front between 30,000 to 60,000 times per second, thus acting as a chisel or chisel on the crystalline fragmenting it into particles (phacoemulsification ) that are sucked at the same time through the conduit of the ultrasound probe.

- Placement of the intraocular lens: after the phacoemulsification a foldable intraocular lens is introduced, which is deployed inside the "capsular bag" and the surgery is completed without the need of sutures.

The technique of phacoemulsification is not painful neither during nor after the operation. In fact, this surgery can be performed with topical anesthesia (drops) without the need for injections.

ADVANTAGES OF PHACOEMULSIFICATION

Rapid visual rehabilitation

Prompt resumption of daily activities

Less eye inflammation

Less postoperative astigmatism

ASTIGMATISM

Surgery for the correction of astigmatism has become very popular in recent years because it is increasingly safe and more predictable.

It allows the person to get rid of their glasses or contact lenses and perform their daily activities and favorite sports without worrying about their vision.

Currently, most cases can be corrected by a procedure known as LASIK.

MYOPIA

With laser surgery, the Ophthalmologist reshapes the cornea of the eye with the laser so that the eye focuses on the objects on the retina instead of in front of it.

In this way and thanks to this operation, this refractive problem is corrected.

A special case of the myopic is that, depending on the degree of myopia of the patient, a patient who suffers from myopia that does not operate from sight, you may never need to wear glasses to see up close when suffering from presbyopia or eyestrain. In these cases, myopia corrects and eliminates the need to wear glasses for eyestrain.

In the case of undergoing laser surgery, the person will get rid of the glasses to see from afar but from 40 to 45 years will need (high probability) to see up close (eyestrain).

OTHER SURGERIES

The Medical Center practices a large number of surgical procedures in its facilities. Below the most important:

Cornea
Cornea transplant
Conjunctiva
Glaucoma
Vitreous
Retina
Squint
Orbit
Eyelids