Eye Clinic
Eye Clinic
About the Clinic
The first ophtalmological ward both in Belgrade and the Kingdom of Serbia was founded in the late 1899 by Lt. Djordje Nešić.
Several years later, more precisely in 1903, medical Lieutenant of that time, Žarko Trpković established the first Eye Department of the Military Hospital in Belgrade. By the decree of the then Secretary of Defence, it grew into the Eye Clinic.
Since its establishment up to date, the Eye Clinic was and has remaind a leader in the field of ophtalmology on our territory in terms of medical staff’s expertise, organization of work, treatment of patients, surgery, equipment, introduction of new treatment methods.
In the former FRY, in 1975, Col. Prof. Miodrag Savičević, M.D., was the first to perform the intraocular lens implantation and the Eye Clinic of the Military Medical Academy was the place where, in 1979, the first posterior vitrectomy was performed. The Military Medical Academy was also the institution where, in 1991, the first surgery of cataracts applying ultrasound method was done .
In 2005, the position of the head of the Clinic was assumed by Col. Prof. Miroslav Vukosavljević, who immediately upon his appointment started with reconstructuring the Clinic according to European and world standards along with introduction of new, mainly, surgical methods of treatment.
In 2006, the Clinic celebrated its 50th anniversary attended by over 300 national and international ophtalmologists. On that occasion, eminent experts took an active part by delivering lectures followed by live surgeries. For the first time in our country, transconjuctival nonsuturing vitrectomy (TSV 25 gr), so called ’’mosquito technique’ of posterior vitrectomy and the results of the use of a new laser in the treatment of glaucoma – selective laser trabeculoplasty - were demonstrated.
By the end of 2007, the Department of the eye laser surgery introduced into its routine practice surgical procedure for dicreasing dioptry. This Department has its functional diagnostic unit and ward within the Diagnostic Outpatient Clinic.
Surgeries are carried out in 4 operating rooms boasting state-of-the-art equipment. A large number of surgical procedures is performed on an ambulatory basis so that the patients can be discharged after the treatment on the same day.
In 2007, the Clinic provided treatment to 2747 patients and caried out 2373 surgical procedures out of which 400 were done in the posterior segment of the eye. More than 1300 surgical procedures were carried out within the Same Day Surgery Center (ambulatory surgeries).
The length of the treatment period was 4,03 days on average and more than 64% of its capacity were filled.
The Eye ward and Functional diagnostic unit carried out together around 22889 ophthalmologic examinations.
Organizational structure
The Eye Clinic has the Department for the anterior segment of the eye, the Department for the posterior segment of the eye and the Department for laser surgery of the eye. It has its ward and functional diagnostic unit acting within the framework of the Diagnostic Outpatient Clinic.
Services
Therapeutic services
Surgery
The Eye clinic’s surgical team is highly specialized in carrying out various surgical procedures, from the most simplest to the most complex ones involving the anterior and posterior segment of the eye and eye adnexis. Those are the surgeries that are provided by the medical centers in the world.
Surgeries relating to the posterior segment of the eye that are considered the most complex surgical procedures in the field of ophthalmology have, for a longer time, been a part of the Clinic’s routine paractice. The Clinic also carries out cataract surgeries applying advanced ultrasound method (phacoemulsification surgery), combined glaucoma and cataract surgeries or combined surgical procedures in the anterior and posterior segment of the eye (so called Phaco-vitrectomy).
- Vitrectomy pars plana
- TSV 23 or 25 G
- Standard ablatio retinal surgery
- Cataract surgeries (Phacoemulsification)
- Glaucoma surgery
- Strabismus surgery
- Combined surgeries (cataract-glaucoma, cataract-ablatia)
- Treatment of eye injuries
- Eyelid and lacrimal system surgery
- Excimer Laser procedure for dioptry dicrease
- Laser photo-coagulation of the eye fundus - LFC
The application of sophisticated laser enables surgeons from this Clinic to perform other procedures required for the therapy of glaucoma ( selective laser trabeculoplasty, YAG laser iridotomy) or secondary cataract.
Diagnostic services
In addition to specialist's examinations, the Eye diagnostic functional unit provides a wide spectrum of diagnostic procedures required to timely establish the diagnosis, decide on the choice of treatment or evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy.
- Visual field testing (computerized by Goldman) is a fundamental part of establishing diagnosis and monitoring glaucoma.
- Fluorescein angiography
- Visual-evoked potential (VEP)
- Electroretinography (ERG)
- Ortoptic examinations
- Examinations and contact lenses related education of a patient
- Optic coherent tomography (OCT)
- A and B- scan ultrasound
- Examination of children under general anesthesia
- Dark accommodation testing
- Hess-Lancaster test
- Color vision testing
- Pahimetry
- Visual acuity testing by Catford
- Microbiological evaluations
- Immunopathologic and histopathologic evaluations
Patients categories
All the military as well as civilian insured are eligible to use the sevices of the Eye clinic on the basis of a specilist’s referral.
Patients living outside Belgrade are required to obtain a referral pre-certified by a relevant Health Insurance Fund while Belgrade residents can visit the Clinic on the basis of an ophthalmologist’s referral only.
Foreign citizens has the right to use Clinic’s medical services under signed bilateral agreements.
Patients can also seek treatment with this Clinic at their request and charge.
Information Office
All required information you can get by dialing at 381 11 3080801
The First Department 381 11 3608 463
The Second Department 381 11 3609 126
Eye Ward 381 11 3608 768
Notification: Prior to scheduling any intervention or therapeutic procedure for a patient, it should be indicated by our ophthalomologist.
The Address and contact phone:
Clinic for Eye Diseases, MMA
Belgrade, 17 Crnotravska St.
MMA’s Information Office: 381 11/ 2661122, 2662755
Head of the Clinic: 381 11/ 3609505
Clinic’s Administration Office: 381 11/3608 80, 3609 421
Eye Ward : 381 11/3608 768
Clinic for Eye Diseases, MMA
Head of the Clinic for Eye Disease
Col. Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Vukosavljević, M.D. Ph.D.
Ophthalmologist
