The
V.P. Filatov Research Institute of Eye Diseases and
Tissue Therapy known as one of the leading
Europian ophthalmological centres.
The Institute was founded in 1936 by academician V.P.
Filatov, the famous ophthalmologist well-known all
over the world by his works on cornea transplantation,
the founder of an original method of
non-specific treatment-tissue therapy.
The Filatov Institute is situated in a picturesque
area of Odessa, city-resort on the Black Sea, with almost
one million inhabitants.
Every year thousand of patients from all FSU republics
and abroad are examined and treated at the outpatient
department of the Institute and at its eight clinical departments
with 500 beds in total, thousands of microsurgical operations are performed yearly.
22 professors, doctors of Medical Science, 50 candidates of Science, biologists, biochemists, doctors of other specialities perform extensive curative and research work on the most urgent problems of ophthalmology at such laboratories as:
To many thousands of blind
persons, vision is restored with the help of different
types of operations, elaborated at the Institute.
The Filatov Institute provides treatment for persons
from abroad and other services on examination and consultation of patients with
the main eye pathology: abnormality of refraction,
diseases of the
eyelids and lacrimal organs, pathology of the cornea,
diseases of choroidal tract, pathology of the lens,
glaucoma, diseases of the retina and optic nerve, eye-burns
and eye traumas and their sequelae, diseases of
the orbit, disturbances of oculomotor apparatus in
children and adults.
The consultation is conducted by highly experienced ophthalmologists having at
their disposal uptodate methods for diagnosis of eye diseases.
The Filatov Institute informs persons wishing to have
consultation and treatment that it is inexpedient to
apply to the Institute for those with the absence of
light perception or incorrect light projection in the
sick eye as well as for those suffering from severe
somatic diseases, such as diabetes of severe degree,
collagenosis, polyarthrosis, nephritis, hepatitis, dermatosis, psychopathy,
dementia, chronic alcoholism, narcomania.
After consultation at the Institute, the patient can
undergo surgical or medicamentous treatment (on
indications) on an outpatient basis (the patient has to
stay at the Institute only for the duration of surgical
intervention or medicamentous procedures) in the
following cases:
Besides that,
The Filatov Institute offers foreign patients one- or
four-week staying in two- or four-
bedrooms for the following types of treatment at the
clinical department depending on the category of
complexity of eye pathology:
- optic penetrating and lamellar transplantation of
donor cornea;
- curative keratoplasty;
- transplantation of artificial cornea-keratoprosthesing;
- extraction of senile, traumatic, congenital
cataracts, including intraocular lens implantation
(IOL);
- reconstructive operations on occasion of various
injuries of the iris;
- removal of adhesions between eyelids and the eye
ball after eye burn;
- extraction of intraocular foreign bodies;
- antiglaucomatous operations;
- retinal detachment surgery with vitrectomy;
- surgical reconstruction of the conjunctival cavity
for the wear of prosthesis;
- treatment of inflammatory diseases of the retina,
the choroid of the eye and the optic nerve;
- surgical correction of congenital and acquired
ptosis;
- surgical correction of pterygium with cornea
transplantation.
A decision on performing any type of surgical
intervention or medicamentous treatment is to be
taken only after examination and consultation by
highly experienced ophthalmologists at the Filatov
Institute.
The Filatov Research Institute guarantees you a
top-class level of examination, consultation and treatment as well as a pleasant
stay in one of the most beautiful towns of
Ukraine.
THE PROGRAMME FOR
TOURISTS-PATIENTS COMING TO ODESSA
FOR CONSULTATION AND TREATMENT
AT THE FILATOV INSTITUTE,
DEPENDING ON THE CATEGORY OF COMPLEXITY OF EYE
PATHOLOGY
1st day Arrival in
Odessa
2nd - 3rd days
Medical examination, consultation and receipt of medical history and report
4th day Performing surgical intervention (on indications) or
medicamentous treatment.
Further following up at the Institute depends on the
character and complexity of treatment.