Ophthalmology and Technology

New technologies and their application promise a better tomorrow for visually impaired people.
Technology has helped surgery tremendously in recent years. In ophthalmology, new non-traumatic techniques of very thin instruments that do not use sutures have greatly improved success rates as well as post-operative recovery.

Conditions such as retinal detachment, which 30 years ago was a condition that had a 50% chance of vision and eye loss, now has success rates of 90%-95% with the first operation and 99% with the second and third. The result is doubly beneficial and important: it relates both to the high level of postoperative vision achieved for the patient and to the hospitalization time, which shrinks significantly - from days that were has been reduced to a few hours after surgery.

The same happens with macular diseases that were not easy to treat with the previous generation of surgical techniques. Conditions such as macular hole and epiretinal membrane are now operated on early with almost zero complication rates and excellent visual acuity results. Macular diseases include age-related macular degeneration, which in recent years, with the help of anti-VGF drugs, has been shown to stabilize and in some cases improve vision in the larger group of patients with this disease.