DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

EYE EXAMINATION

Eye examination is the most important form of prevention and the beginning of any path of treatment in ophthalmology. Most sight-threatening diseases can be diagnosed before they even generate symptoms, and treatment will be more effective the earlier it is given. For this reason, the IRCCS G.B. Bietti Foundation offers an Ophthalmology Clinic open to all people who wish to visit. If a pathological condition emerges from this visit, the person is referred to the various specialist clinics of the Foundation.

The Super-specialization

The distinction between general clinics and specialist clinics follows the internal organisation of the IRCCS Bietti Foundation with the Complex Operating Unit of Ophthalmology organised into individual operating units and the Clinical and Research Centre of Neuro-ophthalmology, genetic and rare diseases. The Bietti Foundation has been a precursor in Italy of this approach and its clinical and translational research activity is organised for groups of diseases..

Our tools

The particularity and transparency of the eye helps the eye doctor to ‘see’ with the help of special instruments the main anatomical structures of the eye. This is one of the reasons why the eye examination allows you to immediately assess the health status of the person. This basic instrumentation is complemented by some therapeutic diagnostic techniques and advanced tests that are used in specialist clinics to deepen the diagnostic framework and monitor/treat diseases. For the anterior part of the eye (cornea, crystalline lens), for example, corneal topography, the OCT of the anterior segment and confocal microscopy are used; for the medical retina, microperimetry, OCT angiography, Fluorescein angiography and autofluorescence; for glaucoma, perimetry, the OCT of the optic nerve and ganglion cells and the OCT angiography and for Neuro-ophthalmology the ERGs, PEV, visual field.

The relationship between care and research

IRCCS Bietti supports several lines of research, clinical and laboratory, dedicated to studying the mechanisms underlying the onset of diseases and their progression. Knowing these mechanisms, in fact, allows to develop targeted responses to prevent or stem them.

Research and care go hand in hand in our institute, this is the reason why we talk about translational research.

Translational research aims both to transform the results obtained from basic research into clinical applications, and to study the effect of the same treatments on individual people in order to improve and implement the methods of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases and thus opening the doors to personalized medicine on the individual patient.