Heidelberg Retinal Tomograph (HRT)
Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve causing progressive loss of nerve tissue and visual loss. Treatments are aimed at slowing this progressive visual loss. For many years the only way progression was monitored was subjective clinical examination by a physician. While physician examination is still crucial to glaucoma treatment, the HRT has given our physicians an objective testing measure to follow glaucoma progression. HRT is the only advanced imaging device to quantitatively measure the three vital structures, cup, rim, and retinal nerve fiber layer, needed to make a complete assessment of glaucoma. This is important because damage can be detected at one or more of these locations depending on individual patient anatomy and susceptibility.

If clinically indicated, your physician will monitor your optic nerve using this state of the art technology.

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Non-Mydriatic Fundus Photography
Fifth Avenue Eye Associates is now equipped with state of the art non-mydriatic digital fundus photography. This allows us to take archived digital images of a person’s retina and optic nerve allowing us to better follow conditions such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, choroidal nevi (freckles in the back of the eye) as well as inherited retinal and optic nerve conditions. Having such imaging readily available allows us to better follow stability of eye conditions and allows us to treat people with more certainty.
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