Jyotirmay Eye Clinic

Women's Day Special 2024

🎁 Gift yourself or your loved one, a women's day eye screening.

We are happy to offer the women in your family over 40 years of age, a screening for Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy and Cataract at Jyotirmay eye clinic at only
Rs. 150 in the month of March.

Why screening?
Glaucoma and diabetic Retinopathy are silent killers of vision and often irreversible.

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** any further treatment that is necessary will be additional since this is a screening program.
Avail 50% off on investigations if needed

Success story to warm the heart

Giving back the comfort to a medical student to continue studying hard and uninterrupted.
Relieving her double vision,
Recovery of a binocular single vision, 3d vision, cosmesis and confidence.

Careful planning and meticulous surgery allows beautiful outcomes.

BOA 2024
Bombay Ophthalmic Association
Our Annual conference

2 talks:
Session on proficiency beyond ophthalmology: shared my experience with attending sporting events across the globe, adventure sports and my journey with arts

Session on 1 case 1 pearl in strabismus:
Discussed a case of a young female who developed a squint a decade after undergoing LASIK surgery

Beyond all I got to meet all my friends, colleagues, teachers...

Grateful for the opportunity


It was a beautifully organized meeting
So proud of my friends

Benefits of squint repair in a patient with shaky eyes (nystagmus)

1. Restore binocular single vision (functional)
2. Reduce amplitude of nystagmus (functional + cosmetic)
3. Improved quality of vision (functional)
4. Cosmetic correction (cosmetic)
5. Increased confidence (emotional+ functional)
6. Increased social acceptance (emotional+ functional)

Tag someone you know who can benefit from this.

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National Myopia Awareness Week 2023

Moscon 2023

1 video presentation on a completely reversible and adjustable squint surgery technique used for a patient with squint after LASIK

1 talk in an instructioncourse- on neuroimaging in ophthalmology- when and how to interpret.

Thank you


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Happy faces
Day 7 Navratri


Presenting to you Team JEC
few ppl mising*

1 week post operative results for a squint surgery in a young woman.

This was an interesting case where a lactating mother who had decompensation of the strabismus wanted a repair.

We waited till the child was on a top feed, ensured there was expressed milk to feed the baby to tackle post operative anesthesia drug wash out before the mother could start feeding.

Promoting breast feeding all the way. With only a back up as needed.


She has achieved binocular single vision, 3D vision and she is perfectly aligned with great cosmesis after surgery.

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Navratri 2023. White.

Navratri 2023: White

Operating is meditative.

The weekend that went by: POSN 5, Vadodara
This is pediatric ophthalmology, Strabismus and neuroophthalmology meeting which an academic feast and therapeutic with meeting our friends, mentors, seniors and colleagues.

Perfect space to discuss all the difficult cases. Learning and growing.

My academic contributions:

1. Paper on a study that we conducted and is on going on "peripheral retinoscopy" : this is one of the latest interest in the understanding of myopia progression in children.

2. An e poster: on a complex case of double seronegative ocular myasthenia gravis in a young make

3. An e-video presentation: on squint surgery after LASIK in a middle aged woman

But I learnt far more. We have an amazing set of pediatric ophthalmologists in our country and it was an absolute pleasure to hear Dr Lionel Kowal from Australia as well.

You can see the laughs and broad smiles.. this is what I mean by therapeutic..

Thanking Dr Jethani and team baroda for hosting us.

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There are some times when I feel it was all worthwhile.

It is this joy of of improving the quality of life of a person- I'm finding it rather hard to describe it in words.

This is one such story of a 6 year old young boy from rural India. You see how he came with this strained neck position. He lived with it for the last 6 years since they didn't believe it could be corrected. Fortunately his aunt brought him to Mumbai & the collaborative efforts and referral by my long time friend that we see this story in a positive light.

This child needed the following;
1. Glasses to see better
2. Surgical correction of - squint, head posture and eye movements
3. Management of lazy eye

He was operated and given glasses and they went back to the village. It was satisfying seeing the immediate gratifying results of head posture and squint correction with a 2line improvement in vision, simply because the eyes were Ina better position to see.

However, lazy eye management is a longer course and needs follow up.

To my surprise, they came back from the village for their first follow up.

Interestingly, many of these challenging cases that need complex surgeries come from backgrounds that cannot afford our standard fee. We do not deny treatment to any patient based on their paying abilities.

We treat them if we can, no matter what.

Here's to believing that the efforts we put in resulted in the family pursuing better vision.

Here's to hoping that his results inspire others in the village, make them aware and persuade them to seek medical attention

Here's to celebrating their courage to go through the journey.

I hope I can put a follow up post with his final visual outcome a couple years down the line....

There are patterns in everything.
And so we see the same in eye movements and squints.
As a squint specialist, we don't only aim to correct what is cosmetically visible to the patient, but we also look at any patterns, tilts In the eye that may need correction.

Hence it needs a meticulous assessment and planning.

And with patterns comes math. So it is all a mathematical equation that we try and solve, knowing well that it is finally human body which may or may not follow the equation to the tee.

So we try our level best based on the evidence that we currently have to correct everything possible. Assessing the risk and benefit of interventions.

In the first image if you were to draw an imaginary line (dotted) extended beyond the photo- it appears like the letter A.

Hence this is called an A pattern squint.

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Precious.
We all need some Love.
As a doctor We get invested in the patient -emotional more than time.
Some kind words, a beautiful hand written note brings the warmest feeling in return..

This was from a patient I recently operated for

Sometimes even if we get great post op results- we may need the patients to follow up for post operative long term success.

We may prescribe some glasses/ exercises/ patching therapy.

Do not forget to regularly follow up after a great surgical outcome.

The joy of seeing these children:
Early Detection --> early cure

Our Journey to restore binocular single vision

These children treated in time imply better awareness, better education amongst parents.

Let's all work together to ensure children don't grow up assuming:
squints just run in families

* It's normal for children to have squints and they will get better with time

* One should wait for children to grow up and then manage the squints,

* Squints need correction for cosmesis only.

The smile after the surgery becomes bigger.

This middle aged male decided to get operated after a long standing squint- increased in the angle and duration.
It was his confidence and ability to convince clients he was talking to that was at stake.

Such a pleasure to meet these patients after surgery.

This was such a memorable class. One wherein I wondered if they were only residents in training. They were all so well read and answering to the point.
What a delight and so so thankful to .nariani for being such a wonderful messiah and doing such a great job.

Himalayan classroom project

It's clearly a myopandemic in clinics and conferences.

There's a lot more to understand about why children are getting myopia at young ages and progressing rapidly.

Remember:
Meet your doc in time
Follow up regularly
Let kids be kids- how you were as kids-

Go out and play

Limit to only large screens(tv) for a very limited time

Myopia focus group meeting.

Conferences are not only about hearing but also networking, and meeting your old friends.

So it's for the brain but also a lot for the soul.

I was grateful to meet and learn from the team and Dr Wang.
We are ready o bring you to our clinic, the best practises from the world.

**MYOCON 2023**
The Myopia conference at Narayana Nethralaya.

And like all other conferences that NN organizes, it was more than just a typical conference-a perfect amalgamation of talks, case discussions, debates and fun.

The faculty came in all together as super heroes to tackle one main enemy and form a consensus.

I had the privilege to participate as a speaker sharing our experience with the use if high dose atropine to re**rd myopia progression as well as a panelist.

It was a pleasure to attend the workshops- learn about the open field ARR, peripheral retinoscopy and ortho k lenses.

Im delighted to be back after relishing an extremely delicious and sumptuous 5 course meal on childhood myopia.

Looking forward to bringing MyoCon learnings to clinic.

Extremely proud of Sumitha Muthu my dear friend and co fellow from fellowship days, who curated this event with our super hero mentor Jyoti Matalia. Thanking her for bringing us back to the institute, reminisce, re-energize and push us forward forever and always. And the entire team NN for executing it to the tee.

Catch this article today on page 4 of the times of India.

Myopia awareness initiative.

It's important to know:
* Kids with strong parental history/ preterm birth need to be checked early (1 year of age)

** All efforts are to reduce "progression" of myopia or "onset" of myopia

*** Apart from genetics,
Lifestyle plays an important role:
Outdoor Daylight exposure protects
Reduced near activity protects

**** Atropine eyedrops, DIMS and HALT technology lenses have shown Evidence of reducing the rate of progression.

Get EARLY & REGULAR eyechecks.

Ask your pediatric ophthalmologist about the latest Evidence and treatment options.

*** BOA 2023 ***
Grateful to have been a part of this scientific feast: our home city meet!

This has been a meeting which is an annual ritual in our lives since we joined residency.

We learn, we present, meet a lot of our seniors, colleagues and friends..

This year the meeting was conducted after 3 years- and it broke several old records for number of people attending, introduction of new formats.

1 thing each day .. Happy conferencing.
1. Video presentation of a tricky case that was successfully managed
2. Invited talk on complex Strabismus
3. Video presentation in the court martial format: as a surgeon on trial in court. P.s. verdict was not guilty :)

Thank you so much for including me In the program and always supporting me in this journey

for pushing me and this bigg opportunity. He remains the epitome of humility, hardworking, visionary, kindness and perfect executioner. So proud of him for this fantastic meet which broke old records.

the champ surgeon


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Among some things that we cannot buy..

Is the happiness, smile and confidence we see in patients that we have operated for squint surgeries.

And these are important for people across all ages.

In the last few months I have become more present to the great impact my patients have had when they came for a follow up after surgery.

They looked radiant, and they have been expressing gratitude for their renewed life.

As surgeons, deeper rooted mindset and troubles that pts experience are discovered after spending time to talk to them and being human first rather than doctor first.

I'm grateful to have got the opportunity to bring smiles on their faces.
Forever grateful for their trust In me.

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These are answers to FAQs in our clinic for every child suffering with Allergies.

Educate. Empower. For Better self care.

This is the most common presentation of a person with eye Allergies.

The red eyes, rubbing,
often in young males and worse in the evening.

These Allergies are often recurrent and need constant and close monitoring with an eye specialist to - control the allergy and balance the adverse effects

Remember:
** DO NOT DELAY TREATMENT
** DO NOT KEEP SELF MEDICATING
** DO NOT RUB YOUR EYES

Do you suffer from these issues?
What's your most common complaint?

Tell us in your comments below/ tag those around you who suffer from these so that we can help you..

Eye Allergies are in abundance right now.

Stay tuned for how you can identify it early and prevent your child/ you from suffering.

Do you know anyone who is suffering?
Do tag them in the post so that they can benefit from the upcoming series.