Helmholtz Scientific Research Institute of GB is an eye clinic, which largely determined the formation and development of Russian ophthalmology. This multidisciplinary research center is the leading institution in the system of the Ministry of Health of Russia on ophthalmology. He coordinates the scientific and research activities of the leading departments of ophthalmology of Russian medical universities.
Specialists
Helmholtz Eye Clinic, reviews of which are only the most positive, has more than six hundred employees. 37 employees of the institution are doctors of medical sciences (17 of them are professors), 88 - candidates of medical sciences. The highest qualification category are 64 specialists, 11 of which carry the title of “Honored Doctor”. Two employees have the honorary title of Honored Scientist.
Organizational structure
Of the 57 units (clinical, scientific, auxiliary) consists of the Scientific Research Institute of GB named after Helmholtz. The eye clinic includes an emergency and emergency department, where patients are handled 24 hours a day. The department helps thousands of people annually. There is also a children's and adult clinic (annual visit - about 200 thousand people). There are 6 inpatient departments with 300 beds, where up to 9 thousand patients receive treatment per year. High-tech medical care is provided to all people - only the most modern technologies, medicines, implants are used in the institution.
In addition, the hospital includes the Zashchita Zashchita disaster medicine center operating on the basis of the department of plastic, reconstructive surgery, traumatology and eye prosthetics, which helps people injured in car accidents, terrorist acts and natural disasters. Helmholtz Institute gives great importance to pediatric ophthalmology. The eye clinic (children's department) develops surgical techniques and conducts diagnostic tests, many of which are of significant scientific and practical value and are truly unique.
Establishment of an institution
The foundation of the institute was based on the noble idea of opening an eye clinic for the poor in Moscow . The initiative belonged to the doctor K.L. Adelheim. The construction of the hospital was financed by the well-known philanthropist Varvara Alekseeva. On November 17, 1990, the institution was opened. At first, it bore the name of A. A. and V. A. Alekseev. This was the first clinic in the capital, which provided free assistance and dispensed medicine to all those in need. Initially, only three buildings functioned: the main building (now it is the 1st building), a residential building for employees and the building of outbuildings.
The hospital, originally opened with 50 beds, in 1903 already numbered 72 beds, and outpatient visits increased from 100 to 150-200 people per day. Even then, the clinic had a children's department, which had no analogues in any institution not only in Russia, but also in Western Europe. The staff was also very limited: the chief physician (a director), four ophthalmologists, a pharmacist, 28 auxiliary workers. Total - 34 people. But despite such a small composition, during 1900-1903. more than 2 thousand inpatient and 3 thousand outpatient surgeries were performed at the clinic, about 150 thousand outpatient visits were recorded, and 2.5 thousand people were treated in a hospital.
Hospital development
It was here that the outstanding ophthalmologist M.I. Averbach. From 1903 until his death (1944), he was the permanent director and chief physician of the institution. Now, on the territory of the institute, a bust monument has been erected to perpetuate the memory of it.
During the First World War, without reducing the amount of assistance to citizens, the hospital also helped the wounded. Even in the post-revolutionary years, full of hardships and devastation, the institution was fully provided with heating, lighting, medicines, food. The territory gradually expanded, by 1925 the number of beds increased to 150. The clinic became, among other things, a base for study: from 1910 to 1919, 2 thousand students were trained here. Ophthalmologists from all cities of the country came here to improve their knowledge in the field of ophthalmology. Scientific activity was conducted, conferences were held twice a month.
In 1936, the institution was renamed the Central Research Institute of Ophthalmology, and in 1948 - the Moscow Research Institute of GB named after Helmholtz. The eye clinic received the status of the head state ophthalmological scientific and practical center. All subsequent time, the institute was actively developing. In different years, the institution was headed by many famous doctors: from 1903 to 1944. - Averbach, from 1944 to 1953. - Knee, from 1954 to 1965 - Roslavtsev, from 1966 to 1986. - Trutnev, from 1986 to 1989. - Egorova, from 1989 to 2004. - Yuzhakov. From 2004 to the present, the hospital has been led by Professor Neroev.
Institute Activities Today
Currently, the Helmholtz Eye Clinic in Moscow carries out multidisciplinary activities. The following departments function:
- plastic, reconstructive surgery, traumatology and ocular prosthetics;
- pathology of the optic nerve and retina;
- pathology of ophthalmoergonomics, binocular vision and refraction;
- glaucoma
- eye pathology in children;
- ophthalmology and radiology;
- allergic and infectious eye diseases;
- contact vision correction;
- physical treatments and homeopathy;
- reflexology;
- radiation therapy and x-ray diagnostics;
- virology and immunology;
- clinical physiology of vision;
- pathophysiology and biochemistry.
Priority Directions
In the hospital, special attention is paid to diseases that now have the greatest social significance. From this point of view, a truly unique institution is the Helmholtz Research Institute. The eye clinic solves the priority problems of ophthalmology, which helps to prevent low vision and blindness. Such problems include glaucoma, damage to the organs of vision, myopia, oncological pathologies of the eyes in adults and children, congenital diseases of the organs of vision, pathologies of the optic nerve and retina, allergic and infectious diseases of the eyes.
Long-term scientific research has allowed the development of new diagnostic methods and technologies for the prevention and treatment of these pathologies. Their introduction into widespread practice made it possible to significantly improve the quality of ophthalmic care for people and increase its level.
Institute Developments
In 1976, the Helmholtz Moscow Eye Clinic was the first in Russia to create a department of radiology and ophthalmic oncology to carry out practical and scientific activities to improve the treatment system for eye and eye tumors in children and adults, its orbit and adnexa. The institution uses informative modern methods of high-tech treatment of benign and malignant neoplasms, develop options for the prevention of oncological diseases of the organs of vision.
The Helmholtz Clinic for Eye Diseases also substantiated a three-factor theory of the origin of myopia, as a result of which new ways of its treatment and pathogenetic prophylaxis were identified, a treatment system for amblyopia and strabismus was created, which includes diploptics, orthoptics, pleoptics.
The hospital carries out medical and surgical treatment of injuries of the visual organs and their severe outcomes, including reconstructive operations, and removes with the help of specially designed tools and magnets the magnetic and magnetic foreign bodies. With various ophthalmopathology, lasers are used.
Latest Techniques
Ophthalmoplastic surgery using carbon implants that have no analogues in the world, ultrasound surgery, contact vision correction using soft cosmetic and therapeutic lenses, pathogenetic treatment of hereditary retinal abiotrophies - all this is done by Helmholtz Research Institute.
For many years, the Eye Clinic has been carrying out organizational and methodological work on glaucoma: it is testing various methods for detecting the disease at an early stage, it is developing the latest methods of medical and surgical treatment. The Institute’s specialists are fighting with chlamydial infections of the eyes, which is currently a serious medical and social problem not only in our country, but also in a number of countries in America and Europe.
Research Institute of Helmholtz. Eye clinic. Children's department
The hospital uses the latest techniques to diagnose and treat disabling pathologies of the organs of vision in children: congenital glaucoma and cataracts, enterovirus and perinatal uveitis, diseases of the optic nerve and retina, and retinopathy of premature babies. Based on the genogeography of various hereditary eye diseases in children, the distribution features of 34 nosological forms were identified, which became the basis for the creation of medical-genetic interregional registers.
The head children's ophthalmologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation L.A. Katargin. This is a unique specialized ophthalmic pediatric department where they provide children with diagnostic and treatment care, conduct research on a huge range of acquired and congenital diseases. Helmholtz Children's Eye Clinic deals with the solution of the current problems of ophthalmology, on which the prevention of low vision and blindness in children depends. They study the etiology and pathogenesis of severe ocular pathologies and develop methods for their treatment. Such diseases include, in addition to the above, clouding of the cornea, eye abnormalities, secondary glaucoma.
Equipment
The department has computer systems for the implementation of psychophysical and electrophysiological developments, spectral coherent optical tomography, ultrasound devices for biomicroscopy and eye scanning, Doppler ultrasound, fluorescence angiography with the ability to obtain multimodal images of eye structures, computer perimetry. All children (without age restrictions) undergo an ophthalmic complex examination, which makes it possible to establish the prevalence of the pathological process and pathogenetic factors with high accuracy. The operating unit is equipped with the latest equipment and modern microscopes, allowing for any kind of microsurgical high-tech operations.
Helmholtz Research Institute. Eye clinic. Address and Phone
The institution is located in Moscow on Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya street, house 14/19. You can get to the hospital from the Krasnye Vorota metro station on the B trolleybus. You should go to the “Institute of Eye Diseases” stop, a five-minute walk from it and the Helmholtz Research Institute (eye clinic). Help desk phone: (495) 625-87-73.