Head of the clinic: Ass. Prof. Anis Međedović, M.D.

Head technician: Edin Altumbabić, graduated technician

Secretary: Halida Gutić

Contacts:

e-mail: info@ukctuzla.ba

Telephone: 00 387 35 303 204; 00 387 35 303 206

HEALTH CARE SERVICES

Today, the Clinic for Eye Diseases provides our patients with a wide range of different microsurgical and laser procedures. Our experienced ophtalmic surgeons offer complete lens surgery using the modern method of phacoemulsifacion, corneal transplantation, modern glaucoma surgery and surgery on the posterior segment of the eye in children and adults, retinal ablation surgery and surgery for vitroretinal diseases. Our ophtalmic plastic surgery involves reconstructive and plastic surgery of the tear ducts and eyelids. Our expertise is diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the posterior segment of the eye, medical retina, (primary and secondary), treatment of macular diseases (DME, ARMD, CMO after TVCR, CNV in high myopia) and intravitreal antiVEGF therapy is applied. Pediatric department deals with the diagnosis and treatment of low vision and strabismus. The Clinic has advanced ultrasound and computer imaging technology for diagnosing ophtalmologic disorders.

The Clinic for Eye Diseases is a teaching base for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Medicine, the High Health School and the Faculty of Special Education and a referral center for the education of doctors and nurses.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

POLYCLINIC FOR EYE DISEASES

Chief of polyclinic: Ass. Prof. Adisa Pilavdžić, M.D.

Nurse in charge: Dženana Tokić, graduated nurse

AMBULANCES:

  • Admission

  • Ohtalmology I and II

Telephone for scheduling appointments: 035 303 213; 035 303 276 and 035 303 268

CABINETS:

  • Cabinet for glaucoma with perimetry. Contact telephone: 035 303 268

  • Cabinet for contact lenses. Contact telephone: 035 303 213

  • Cabinet for ultrasound, pachymetry and keratorefractometry. Contact telephone: 035 303 261

  • Cabinet for laser microsurgery. Contact telephone: 035 303 269

  • Cabinet for the treatment of amblyopia and strabismus. Contact telephone: 035 303 230

  • Cabinet for optical coherence tomography(OCT). Contact telephone: 035 303 278

THE CLINIC STAFF

Number of employees: 57

Doctor specialists: 15

Doctors on residency: 2

Doctors with PhD theses: 2

Graduated nurses/ technicians: 10

Nurses/technicians with nursing school: 21

Defectologists- typhologists graduated- 5

Non- medical workers: 2

DEPARTMENTS:

Department for surgery of the anterior segment of the eye

Chief of the department: Ass. Prof. Jasmin Zvorničanin, M.D.

Nurse in charge: Dijana Fejzić, graduated nurse

Department for surgery of the posterior segment of the eye

Chief of the department: Prof.Dr . Vahid Jusufović, M.D.

Technician in charge: Emir Mahmutović, graduated technician

An outpatient surgery

Nurse in charge: Biljana Sekulić, graduated nurse

Department for inflammatory and degenerative eye diseases

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Halida Basić

Nurse in charge: Narcisa Ćatić, graduated nurse

Department for pediatric ophtalmology

Chief of the department: Ass. Prof. Meliha Halilbašić, M.D.

Nurse in charge: Amra Softić, graduated nurse

Surgery

Nurse in charge: Zumra Brkić

AN OUTPATIENT CLINIC FOR EYE DISEASES- POLYCLINIC

An outpatient clinic offers specialist and consultative ophtalmologic examinations with scheduled appointment, as well as for emergency conditions after regular working hours, on weekends and holidays.

  • Slit Lamp examination (biomicroscopy)

  • Direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy

  • Measurement of eye pressure with a contact and non- contact tonometer

  • Visual acuity test

  • Auto Kerato- refractometry

  • High- frequency ultrasound biomicroscopy of the anterior segment of the eye (UBM)

  • The ultrasound axial length of the eye
  • Pachymetry (measurement of corneal thickness)
  • Ophthalmologic examination of children
  • Evaluation and treatment of children with amblyopia and strabismus
  • Exophthalmometry
  • The treatment and education of patients for contact lenses
  • Glaucoma treatment with perimetry
  • Neuro- ophtalmologic treatment
  • The treatment of patients for medical retina
  • Yellow micropulse laser (subliminal)
  • Nd-YAG laser
  • OCT diagnostics of the macular region and the optic nerve
  • OCT of the anterior segment of the eye
  • OCT angiography with angioanalysis of the macular region and the optic nerve

Getting the right diagnosis in a timely manner is a team effort at our Clinic. After establishing the diagnosis, conservative or surgical management of the disease and proper follow up care is recommended. Our highly trained and experienced ophtalmologic surgeons successfully diagnose and treat many eye diseases and perform eye surgery according to current European guidelines.

Surgical procedures at our outpatient clinic are performed for patients who do not require hospitalization or who may stay in the hospital up to 24 hours (cataract, pterygium, xanthelasma).

SURGERY

  • Ultrasound cataract surgery (PHACO) in children and adults
  • Conventional cataract surgery (ECCE)
  • Vitreoretinal surgery
  • Intraitreal drug administration
  • Corneal transplantation
  • Strabismus surgery in children and adults
  • Management of glaucoma in children and adults
  • Ocular adnexal surgery

Books and publications by emplyees of the Clinic:

  1. Oftalmologija, Sarajevo: TKP Šahinpašić, 1998.
  2. Defektološki fakultet, 1993-1998, Tuzla: Univerzitet u Tuzli, 1998.
  3. Klinička upotreba viskoelastičnih supstanci u hirurgiji prednjeg segmenta oka. Tuzla: Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli, 2002.
  4. Zaštita razvojnog doba, Tuzla/Wuppertal: Bosanska riječ/Das Bosnische Worte, 2004.
  5. Šećerna bolest, Tuzla: Univerzitet u Tuzli, 2003.
  6. Infektologija i zdravstvena njega infektivnih bolesnika, Printcom, Tuzla 2010.
  7. Oftalmologija sa zdravstvenom njegom, Univerzitet u Tuzli, In Scan, Tuzla 2013.
  8. Urgentna ultrasonografija oka Tuzla 2013.
  9. Osnovni principi anestezije i intenzivnog liječenja, Univerzitet u Tuzli, Off-set, Tuzla 2014.