EYE EXAMINATION
The sense of sight is the most important sense of our body. Feelings, smells, tastes and sounds only help to reflect our image of the world around us, and eighty per cent of this image is formed by our eyes. Therefore, it is no wonder that our eyes wear out over time. Eighty per cent of the world’s population suffers from eye problems: myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia (difficulty seeing close up).
Your eyes can also tell a lot about other diseases. Metabolic disorders, diabetes and problems with blood pressure can be recognised in the blood vessels. A preventive examination will reveal the causes of headaches, hypertension, cataracts and glaucoma, keratoconus, a degenerative disease of the cornea, even tumours and pre-diabetes.
A COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMINATION INCLUDES
Intraocular pressure
Visus
Fundus examination
OCT examination of the retina
Front segment
Pachymetry and topography of the cornea
Endothelial microscope examination.
Measuring intraocular pressure can help diagnose and even prevent diseases such as glaucoma. The pressure is measured with a tonometer.
Visus is visual acuity. It is the eye’s ability to identify the two nearest points as two separate objects. Distance vision is examined using optotypes at a distance of 5 or 6 metres. Near visual acuity is determined using near vision optotypes up to a distance of 40 cm, i.e. the reading distance.
Using an ophthalmoscope, your doctor will check your fundus and any changes on it.
Optical coherence tomography
Thanks to this non-invasive examination, it is possible to observe the origin, development or regression of individual diseases of the posterior and anterior segments of the eye. This examination is most commonly used for
Retinal diseases (age-related macular degeneration, closure of retinal vessels, diabetic changes, macular disease, inflammation, post-traumatic conditions).
Diseases of the optic nerve – glaucoma, some neurological diseases (multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease).
Measurement of the parameters of the anterior segment of the eye (cornea, iris, lens).
Ultrasonic pachymetry is the measurement of corneal thickness.
Corneal topography measures its curvature and reveals diseases such as Keratoconus (the cornea slowly, but continuously deviates and thickens, resulting in increased myopia and irregular astigmatism).
Examination by endothelial microscopy is to examine the posterior layer of the cornea.
