Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a complex disease that can lead to significant ocular symptoms, facial disfigurement, and decreased quality of life. Most patients with TED have hyperthyroidism with the most common cause being Graves’ disease. TED may also occur in patients with hypothyroidism (Hashimot...

External Dacryocystorhinostomy under local anesthesia is not a favorite surgery among ophthalmologists. The two obvious reasons are pain and bleeding. Bloodless and painless DCR surgery under local anesthesia may be possible only in a perfect world but our patient as a living being bleed and feel pa...

Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) is a focal cranial dystonia, characterized by excessive involuntary contractions of the eyelid muscles leading to eyelid closure in the absence of any other ocular or adnexal cause which is usually bilateral, although it may be unilateral and brief at onset. The...

A mother of a one-year-old boy, from Dailekh, far western Nepal noticed white glow in the left eye of her son recently. She took her son to the local eye hospital from where he was promptly referred to Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology for further management. The boy was examined under anesthesia...

As an Unit Of Oculoplasty Department, Ocular Prosthetic lab have completed its 11 Years on this December 2022. Now we are going forward with vision to give quality service in ocular prosthesis.   In our 11 years journey we found very good team work. Our sincere gratitude for all your support. Admin...

As an Unit Of Oculoplasty Department, Ocular Prosthetic lab have completed its 11 Years on this December 2022. Now we are going forward with vision to give quality service in ocular prosthesis.   In our 11 years journey we found very good team work. Our sincere gratitude for all your support. Admin...

Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) is a focal cranial dystonia, characterized by excessive involuntary contractions of the eyelid muscles leading to eyelid closure in the absence of any other ocular or adnexal cause which is usually bilateral, although it may be unilateral and brief at onset. The...

External Dacryocystorhinostomy under local anesthesia is not a favorite surgery among ophthalmologists. The two obvious reasons are pain and bleeding. Bloodless and painless DCR surgery under local anesthesia may be possible only in a perfect world but our patient as a living being bleed and feel pa...

Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a complex disease that can lead to significant ocular symptoms, facial disfigurement, and decreased quality of life. Most patients with TED have hyperthyroidism with the most common cause being Graves’ disease. TED may also occur in patients with hypothyroidism (Hashimot...

A mother of a one-year-old boy, from Dailekh, far western Nepal noticed white glow in the left eye of her son recently. She took her son to the local eye hospital from where he was promptly referred to Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology for further management. The boy was examined under anesthesia...

The history of Retinopathy of Prematurity must be as old as the history of the survival of premature infants. Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), previously termed as Retrolental Fibroplasia, is a vaso proliferative condition of Retina which is one of the major causes of childhood blindness and visual...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) DNA is present in every living organism. Chemically it is a polymer of nucleotides connected via a phosphate-deoxyribose sugar backbone; genetic materials of cells and some viruses. DNA is a chain of codes attached together that is arranged specifically by different bond...

World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and World Health Organization (WHO) in 1991 to combat the growing health threats by diabetes mellitus. Later in 2006, WDD became an official United Nations (UN) Day. WDD is marked each year on November 14th, birth da...

Myopia or short sightedness is one of the common ocular disorders worldwide. It is not merely a disorder of refraction, but a wide range of pathology affecting vision. The severity ranges from mild or moderate (usually School myopia of 0.5 to 5 D) to high and pathological myopia of -5 D or more. The...