Ophthalmology Clinic

The Ophthalmic Clinic at the Katharinenhospital performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to treat eye diseases and serves the entire area of Stuttgart. More than half of our patients come to us from outside Stuttgart.

This clinic has an emergency team on call around the clock to respond to emergencies– and provides ophthalmological consultation service for the other centres affiliated with Stuttgart Clinical Centre/Klinikum Stuttgart. The Ophthalmic Clinic's spectrum of services also encompasses outpatient consultations and treatment – including outpatient surgeries.

In addition, this clinic features various special-emphasis outpatient clinics such as vision therapy, an outpatient clinic for visually-impaired people which offers the fitting of magnifying corrective eyewear, contact-lens fitting  - particularly for small children following lens-removal surgery.

• Surgery of cataracts (incl. congenital cataracts in children)
• Surgery of glaucoma (incl. congenital glaucoma in children)
• Corneal transplantations
• Amniotic membrane transplantations
• Retinal and vitreous-body surgery
• Eye-muscle surgery
• Surgery on eyelids and tear ducts
• Plastic surgery of the eyelids
• Treatment of eyelid cramps with botulinum toxin
• Laser surgeries for after-cataracts, glaucoma, retinal disorders, eyelid tumours
• Conservative/surgical treatment of inflammation
• Treatment of injuries
• Acute treatment of circulatory impairments

• Outpatient surgeries
• Referral outpatient clinic
• Private outpatient clinic
• Emergency outpatient clinic
• Injury treatment centre
• Special-emphasis outpatient clinics
• Vision therapy
• Ultrasound laboratory
• Electrophysiology laboratory

• Combined surgery of cataract and corneal transplantations
• Combined surgery of cataract and glaucoma
• Combined surgery of cataract surgery with retina and vitreous body surgery
• Amnion-membrane transplantation for treatment of therapy-resistant corneal ulcers
• Arteriovenous decompression surgery for retinal vein-branch occlusion
• Injection of VEGF inhibitors into the vitreous body region in cases of age-induced macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusions and diabetic retinopathy.

• Molecular-genetic analyses for treatment of corneal dystrophies (in cooperation with the ophthalmic clinic at Halle University and the Institute for Human Genetics at Leipzig University
• Phase 3 b study (RELATION study) for intravitreal Ranibizumab utilisation with diabetic macula oedema

• Data collection and analysis of postoperative endophthalmitis
• Data collection and analysis  of vitreous-body loss during cataract surgeries
• Implementation of quality management of the Ophthalmic Clinic