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Ophthalmology
The directorate offers a comprehensive range of services, both inpatient and outpatient, for children and adults, and provides an ophthalmology accident and emergency department.
Specialist areas of service include:
• Inpatient ophthalmology -surgical and medical
• retinal detachment repair, including vitrectomy macular pathology
• corneal transplants
• trauma penetrating injuries
• chemical burns
• diabetic retinopathy
• uveitis - endophthalmitis, corneal infections
• orbital cellulitis
• vitreous haemorrhage
• choroiditis/retinitis
• strabismus-oculomotor palsies
• ocular and orbital tumours
• laser photocoagulation
Paediatric Ophthalmology -Surgical and Medical
• congenital cataract
• buphthalmos
• ophthalmia neonatum
• ptosis
• retinoblastoma
• retinopathy of prematurity
Specialist Outpatient Clinics
• motility
• diabetic eye
• corneal
• botulinum injection
• retinal detachment
• neuro-ophthalmology
• surgery - oculoplastic
Contact Lens Department and Low Vision Service
• fitting and managing contact lens (adult and paediatric)
• low vision aids service
• perimetry
Laser Department
• retinal tumours
• iridotomies
• retinopathies
• capsulotomies
Paramedical Services
• orthoptic
• ophthalmic photography
• fluorescein angiography
• electrophysiology
• artificial eye
• ultrasound and biometry
The directorate is also involved, in association with the Queen's University of Belfast, with a range of important research projects, which include the following areas:
• the treatment of age related macular degeneration by teletherapy;
• gene mapping of patients with central areolar choroidal sclerosis;
• vitreo retinal proliferation and retinal detachment;
• response of retinal vascular cells in diabetes;
• experimental models of retinal neovascularisation