About our services

We also offer highly specialised surgical care in the areas of vitreous and retinal surgery, glaucoma, corneal, strabismus and oculoplastic surgery.

A growing area is the investigation and treatment of age-related change in the macula.

Our ambition is to have the best quality, the highest patient safety and also the highest availability. Our focus is always on the patient.

The eye care unit has around 80 employees and consists of an inpatient ward with its own recovery unit, operating theatre, day surgery and clinic. It is a large service with around 40,000 doctor and nurse visits per year and extensive surgical activity.

Referral information

Address: 
Ögonmottagningen 
Ingång, 70 bv 
Akademiska sjukhuset 751 85 Uppsala

Eye ward 85 B2

The ward is a weekly care ward, Monday to Friday, and mainly carries out planned surgical activities, however patients in need of emergency eye care are also treated here. The majority of eye care consists of retinal and vitreous surgery. Plastic surgery and cataract operations are also performed.

Head of Department is Soudabeh Noroozi.

To eye ward 85 B2

Children/strabismus

Visual development in children takes place from birth to 8-10 years of age. It is important that refractive errors and strabismus are detected and treated as early as possible to optimise visual development. The paediatric/strabismus section includes paediatric ophthalmologists and orthoptists, who are involved in the assessment and treatment of children with visual impairment and/or strabismus. If retinal disease is suspected, an electrophysiological investigation is performed with full-field and multifocal ERG, if necessary also under general anaesthesia in young children. All types of strabismus surgery are performed.

The Medical Director is Eva Larsson.

Anterior segment diseases

Anterior segment diseases assesses and treats patients with different types of anterior eye diseases. A major patient group is cataracts. Different types of corneal diseases can be treated with excimer laser, lamellar or pervasive corneal transplantation. Pressure-lowering surgical procedures are performed, both conventional trabeculectomies and more unusual valve operations. Children with congenital glaucoma are assessed and treated.

The Medical Director is Anna Wikberg Matsson.

Glaucoma (glaucoma)

Glaucoma is a disease that involves slowly increasing loss of vision in the eye. In many cases, eye pressure is elevated and progression of the disease can be effectively slowed by lowering eye pressure with various eye drops.

Patients with glaucoma have regular check-ups with a doctor or an ophthalmic nurse, and their eye pressure is measured and their visual field function is examined using automated visual field testing, known as perimetry.

The Medical Director is Simon Shamoun.

Surgical retina

Surgical Retina is responsible for the investigation and surgical treatment of diseases of the vitreous humour and retina of the eye. Photography, with or without contrast, and OCT examination are important in the investigation. Diabetic eye complications, which cannot be treated with laser, can be treated with vitreo-retinal surgery. Some macular diseases can be operated on, such as macular holes. Eye changes in premature babies can be treated with laser or vitrectomy. Retinal detachment is operated on. A majority of patients undergoing surgery are referred from the region. Surgical technology has developed rapidly in recent years. The Surgical Retina team was the first in the country to use the latest 23G technology for vitrectomy, which means that the operations can be done with such fine precision that suturing is not required.

The Medical Director is Assem Mejaddam.

Medical retina

In the area of medical retina, diseases of the retina of the eye are investigated and treated. Medical retina is responsible for the screening, monitoring, investigation and treatment of eye complications in diabetes. Screening is performed with fundus photography. Investigation may include contrast photography of the retinal blood flow. Some diabetic eye changes are well suited for monitoring with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Laser treatment is offered.

Macular changes with age are very common. The wet form of age-related changes in the macula can cause rapid and severe vision loss. A common early symptom is metamorphopsia. In recent years, new treatment options have emerged in the form of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and vascular growth factor inhibition (anti-VEGF therapy). The Medical Retina Unit is responsible for the investigation and treatment of age-related changes in the macula.

The Medical Director is Inger Westborg.

Neuro-ophthalmology

Neuro-ophthalmology assesses and treats patients with neurological disorders that affect visual function. A common cause can be various types of tumours of the central nervous system.

The Medical Director is Moustafa Hamam.

Eye clinic and day surgery

The eye clinic is one of the largest outpatient clinics at Uppsala University Hospital. We receive around 40,000 visits a year to doctors, nurses, photographers and orthoptists. The clinic has advanced technical equipment for examining and investigating various eye diseases. Digital cameras for fundus photography and contrast examination of the retinal and macular blood circulation are available, as well as OCT, HRA, HRT and RetCAM equipment. Visual function can be assessed, for example, by visual field testing using one of two Humphrey perimeters. The clinic performs laser treatments for diabetes, glaucoma and cataracts.

We have 2 operating theatres for day surgery at the eye clinic. Several thousand operations are performed there each year. The operations are performed under local anaesthesia. Cataract surgery is the most common. Other common procedures include eye surgery, injection of drugs into the eye and glaucoma surgery.

The head of department at the eye clinic is Stefan Wamala Larsson and at the day surgery it is Katarina Gustavsson.

Eye surgery

In neurosurgery, the eye unit has 2 operating theatres. Highly specialised surgery often requiring general anaesthesia is performed: vitreous and retinal surgery, corneal transplants, glaucoma pressure reduction surgery and strabismus surgery. Children with congenital glaucoma are examined and treated here.

The Head of Department is Katarina Gustavsson.

Ophthalmic plastic surgery

The Department of Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery treats/operates on diseases and injuries of the eyelids, eye socket and tear ducts in both children and adults. A significant proportion of patients are referred from the region.

Common reasons for surgery are tumours and misalignments of the eyelids or blockages in the tear ducts resulting in tear flow. The majority of operations are performed under local anaesthesia.

The Medical Director is Achmed Pircher.

Information on referral for eye examination in diabetes

If diabetes is diagnosed, a referral for fundus photography is made 
The referring health centre/medical clinic is responsible for informing the patient at the time of referral, why the examination is to be carried out and the importance of carrying out the examination. Written patient information on fundus photography in diabetes, available to print from Doc Plus patient information

The referral can be made to care providers linked to the healthcare choice. See further down the page for currently available care providers (2019-11-11)

Information on care guarantee can be provided by the Care Guarantee Unit 018-611 60 60

The referral must include details of the year of diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, the type of diabetes (type 1 or 2), and the presence of hypertension and/or hyperlipidaemia. These are crucial factors, which are taken into account when deciding on further control intervals

Continued ocular fundus examination with photoscreening is then performed at set intervals, taking into account disease duration, age of onset, presence of ocular complications and other risk factors

The patient does not receive a response to the examination. The result is communicated to the patient by the treating diabetes doctor/nurse. There may be a delay in responding to the examination, as the assessment of the photography takes place at a different time to the examination itself

Driving licence certificates for diabetics are not issued by the eye clinic. Driving licence certificates are issued in the usual way by the treating diabetes doctor, in accordance with the Swedish Transport Agency's regulations, on the usual medical certificate. If necessary, the certificate may be supplemented by information on visual acuity obtained from an optician

Only patients with an established eye disease/eye complication of diabetes (e.g. previous laser treatment), need a driving licence certificate issued by a doctor specialised in eye diseases.

Available care providers