Cataract Center
The Cataract Center of Tianjin Eye Hospital was founded in 2007, merging from cataract department and Bo’ai Eye Care Center. Since then, the cataract center has been dedicated to providing comprehensive and state of the art medical and surgical eye care to the people of northern China. With a unique combination of both optometric and ophthalmological services we are able to address a wide variety of eye case needs in one practice setting.
Today, the center is well known for its excellence in cataract surgery and numbers of highly trained and skilled cataract surgeons, and that’s why more and more patients trust their cataract treatment to us. There are 1 professors and 9 associate professors in the Center, one of whom can mentor PhD and three of whom can mentor masters, and 6 of them are PhD. Surgeons in the Center are well experienced in all kinds of cataract surgeries such as congenital cataract, complicated cataract, glaucoma-cataract combined surgeries, etc.; We also provide amblyopia treatment for the children after congenital cataract surgery. They gains their world reputation for the advanced clinical techniques and academic devotion.
The latest equipment for examination and surgeries are available at our center. For example, Phacoemulsification machines: Centurion, and Infinity (by ALCON) , Sovereign™ White Star and Signature (by AMO), Stellaris (by Bausch & Lomb); Surgery Microscope: Lumera 700 (by Zeiss). IOLMaster (by Zeiss) . In this center, you can also choose Femosecond Laser Assisted Cataract surgery instead of the conventional way. Besides, our doctors can help you choose your intraocular lens (IOL), including spheric IOL, aspheric IOL, Toric IOL, multifocal IOL and accommodative IOL, according to your daily life demand.
Over the decades our goal has been to restore, preserve, and enhance our patient’s vision in an open and friendly environment. As part as our practice philosophy in caring for the members of our community we always provide after hour emergency coverage for all our established patients. It has 50 beds to satisfy your hospitalization need, but the outpatient surgery is more often to be chosen.
Our center was awarded as National Pioneer Workers and Tianjin Pioneer Workers in year 2012. We actively participates in humanism missions; e.g. Health Express in 2013 and 2014, which provided free cataract surgeries for over 6000 patients in multiple provinces. It also offers over 200 free cataract surgeries every year for the disabled in Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan province; over 300 cataract surgeries for the National Model Worker and the disabled in Tianjin. This wins good reputation from the society. Besides, the center has been cooperating with Tianjin Women and Children Health Center to perform congenital cataract scanning for 200 suspected infants, and over 100 cases has been confirmed as surgery candidates. Our center also help the visually disabled children apply for the funding from Tianjin Disabled Persons Federation.(2016.7)
