University Eye Clinic Düsseldorf
| University Eye Clinic Düsseldorf | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| place | Dusseldorf |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '50 " N , 6 ° 47' 22" E |
| management | Gerd Geerling (Clinic Director), Rainer Guthoff (Deputy Director) |
| Affiliation | University Hospital Düsseldorf |
| founding | 1862 |
| Website | www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/augenklinik |
The University Eye Clinic Düsseldorf is part of the University Clinic Düsseldorf . Traditionally, the focus is on the anterior segment of the eye. It is an international center for keratoplasty . Another focus is the surgical and conservative treatment of retinal and vitreous diseases .
history
The first important ophthalmologist in Düsseldorf, to whom the university clinic owes its address, was Albert Mooren . As a student of Albrecht von Graefes (1828–1870), he was awarded the management of the new ophthalmological institution with 84 beds by the city of Düsseldorf in 1862. In order to offer the growing number of medical students a training opportunity, the city hospitals received a provisional license in 1919 and a permanent license in 1923 with the establishment of the Medical Academy. Ernst Custodis , clinic director from 1946 to 1967, was the first in 1949 to successfully treat rhegmatogenic retinal detachment with a seal. On January 1, 1973, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia took over responsibility for the municipal hospitals, which were renamed the Düsseldorf University Hospital . Rainer Sundmacher , who headed the clinic from 1986 to 2006, founded the Lions Cornea Bank NRW in 1995 ; Since then, the focus of the Düsseldorf Eye Clinic has been on corneal diseases . The clinic has been managed by Gerd Geerling since 2011 . In December 2016, the clinic moved into renovated buildings (November 18 and December 18) on Himmelgeister Strasse.
Treatment priorities
Anterior segment
Corneal operations are a specialty of the eye clinic:
- Perforating keratoplasty
- Posterior and anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DSAEK; DMEK , DALK)
The other focal points include, among others
- Collagen crosslinking in keratoconus , keratoglobus , keratotorus and keratectasia after refractive corneal surgery ( LASIK )
- Corneal prostheses
- Cataract operations
- Glaucoma operations
Posterior segment
The focus is on treatments for moist, age- related and other forms of macular degeneration , diabetic retinal and macular diseases and other retinal vascular diseases, as well as infectious and inflammatory retinal vitreous diseases . Among other things, retinal vitreous surgery (for example pars plana vitrectomy ) are performed.
In the oculoplastic surgery department , patients with diseases of the eyelids, lacrimal ducts and eye socket are treated. Reconstructive eyelid surgery (including ptosis , entropion , ectropion , dermatochalasis ) and reconstructive lacrimal and orbital surgery, for example endoscopic opening of the lacrimal ducts, are carried out. The area of responsibility also includes the surgical removal of the contents of the eye or the entire eyeball in the event of chronic diseases or injuries to the eye.
Research priorities
The clinic's scientific research is carried out in the laboratory for experimental ophthalmology . There, working groups complement the clinical task areas with translational approaches in the field of regenerative medicine of the eye. Another focus is the creation of connective and corneal replacement tissues.
The Düsseldorf Eye Clinic is EVICR-certified (European Vision Clinical Research) and, under the direction of Rainer Guthoff, is involved in numerous clinical studies to test new therapeutic approaches. The main research areas include, among others
- Corneal and other transplant procedures
- Regenerative medicine of the eye
- Dry eye and novel tear substitutes
- Vascular diseases of the retina and macula
Lions corneal bank NRW
One of the most important tissue banks in Germany is the Lions Cornea Bank NRW, in which an average of around 500 transplants are preserved every year. About 5% of all keratoplasties performed in Germany take place in the eye clinic of the University Hospital Düsseldorf. Most of the corneal transplants come from the Institute for Forensic Medicine and the intensive care units of the Düsseldorf University Hospital and cooperating hospitals in the surrounding area. The Düsseldorfer Corneal Bank works u. a. with the non-profit organization BISLIFE, which organizes the distribution of tissue within Europe in the Netherlands.
School of vision and orthoptist school
The eye clinic's vision school looks after strabological and neuroophthalmological patients. The eye clinic also trains orthoptists for their profession in its own school . Their area of responsibility includes participation in preventive care as well as in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of one- or two-eyed vision. These can be caused, for example, by strabismus , amblyopia , paresis (eye movement disorders) and eye tremors . be evoked.
Scientific publications
The eye clinic has published numerous scientific publications on the topics of the anterior and posterior segment.
literature
- Hans Joachim Küchle: Eye clinics at German-speaking universities and their professors in the 19th and 20th centuries . Biermann Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-930505-47-9 .
- Thorsten Halling, Jörg Vögele: 100 years of university medicine in Düsseldorf 1907–2007 . düsseldorf university press, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-940671-00-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ E. Custodis: Does sewing the seal on the sclera mean an advance in the surgical treatment of retinal detachment? In: German Ophthalmological Society. Volume 58, 1953, pp. 102-105.
- ^ Hans Joachim Küchle: Eye clinics of German-speaking universities and their professors in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2005.
- ↑ uniklinik-duesseldorf.de ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ uniklinik-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ Lions Corneal Bank NRW. Downloads. (uniklinik-duesseldorf.de)
- ^ Dörte Matthes: LIONS corneal bank NRW: Top in Germany. ( uni-duesseldorf.de ( Memento from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ uniklinik-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ uniklinik-duesseldorf.de ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
