All people in our service make an effort to provide exceptional patient care and repair to the clients and mentioning vets. We goal to supply a great clinical chance to learn for the future veterinary co-workers.
Our Services
The Comparative Ophthalmology service in the Veterinary Clinic at Ohio Condition offers comprehensive take care of companion and equine creatures with eye irregularities.
Service Highlights
- Board licensed eye specialists
- Cataract extraction - all species
- Artificial lens implantation
- Cornael or glaucoma surgery
- Laser surgery, including endolaser
Work hours
- 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday - Friday
- Patient visits by appointment only or problems as scheduled from your vet
To have an appointment
- (614) 292-3551 - For Pet
- (614) 292-6661 - For Equine
Problems
- After hour problems: (614) 292-3551
What to anticipate
Our senior veterinary students will require an entire patient background and provide your pet a preliminary ophthalmic examination underneath the supervision of the staff ophthalmologist. Ought to be policy, you'll be requested revisit the lobby throughout the examination. Our staff eye specialists will examine your dog and perform any extra tests needed. It's frequently essential to administer eye drops to dilate your pet’s pupils and permit better visualization from the inner structures from the eye. It requires fifteen minutes of these drops to operate as well as their effect lasts 3-4 hrs hrs. Please allow 1-2 hrs to have an initial examination in case your pet is really a new patient to the hospital. Following the examination, the ophthalmologist will talk to you about treatment and diagnosis options.
Special Equipment &lifier Technology
- Ophthalmic laser, including endolaser
- Operating microscope
- Phacoemulsification
- Advanced microsurgical techniques
- CT scan and MRI
- High res ultrasound
- Electrodiagnostic testing
Common Conditions
- Dry eye (KCS)
- Cataracts
- Retinal degeneration
- Eye lid disorders
- Glaucoma
- Cornael ulceration
- Ocular trauma
- Equine recurrent uveitis
- Equine cornael disease
- Equine ocular growths
Common Methods
- Cataract surgery (phacoemulsification with intraocular lens positioning)
- Retinopexy for retinal detachment
- Eye lid rebuilding methods for entropion, eye lid growths, etc.
- Glaucoma medical and surgical procedure
- Medical and surgical procedure of cornael ulceration
- Suprachoroidal cyclosporine implantation to treat equine recurrent uveitis
- Subconjunctival cyclosporine implantation to treat equine immune-mediated keratitis
- Equine ocular tumor excision, radiation and chemotherapy
Faculty Physicians
- David A. Wilkie, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVO
Professor-Tenured faculty - Anne Gemensky-Metzler, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVO
Professor-Clinical, Ophthalmology Section Mind - Eric J. Burns, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVO