г. Санкт-Петербург, ул. Ярослава Гашека, 21. Телефон: +7 (812) 324-66-66

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Refractive surgery and contact correction department


Doctors of Refractive Surgery and Contact Correction Department at St. Petersburg branch are dealing with all kinds of surgical and conservative methods of refractive errors correction, keratoconus tretament, diagnostics using aberrometry and keratotopography, study of cornea and retina diseases and laser coagulation of retina in patients with rhematogenous forms of peripheral retinal dystrophies.

Conservative treatment of refractive errors, performed by the Department, includes all types of spectacle correction, free glasses fitting, if you choose to order them at St. Petersburg branch, implementation of special magnifying lens for patients with macular pathology and sun glasses.

The Department also carries out all types of modern contact correction, including selection of soft contact lenses of any design: spherical, toric, multifocal, for correction of myopia, hyperopia, mixed astigmatism in both, adults and children.

The Department has a unique experience in personalized soft contact lenses fitting of complicated design in case of keratoconus or different corneal pathologies.

Since 2021, the Department has been successfully selecting modern scleral lenses for patients after injuries and scars in the cornea of various origins, including those after keratoplasty and different methods of keratoconus treatment.

Specialists

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Kachanov Andrei Borisovich
Head of Department, ophthalmologist of the highest qualification category, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor at the Chair of Opthalmology at NWSMU named after I.I. Mechnikov

Performed more than 30,000 different ophthalmic surgeries (the anterior and posterior segments and auxiliary apparatus of the eye surgery, ophthalmotraumatology, etc.), more than 28,000 of excimer and femtosecond laser refractive surgeries at the St. Petersburg branch of S. Fyodorov “Eye microsurgery”, performed more than anyone in Russia and the European Union ReLEx® SMILE operations using a femtosecond laser VISUMAX - 7,500 operations



Detailed

Education:
1988 г. – graduated from Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
1990 г. – clinical residency at the Chair of Eye Diseases of Leningrad Pediatric Medical Institute;
1998 г. – defended his candidate’s thesis “Diode-laser transscleral contact cyclocoagulation in the treatment of complicated forms of glaucoma and ophthalmic hypertension” (research superviser – prof. V.V. Volkov)
Medical practice:
1990 - 2000 - ophthalmic surgeon at St. Petersburg Eye Hospital №7 and State Medical Hospital №2.
2000 - to the present - ophthalmic surgeon of the refractive surgery department at St. Petersburg branch of S. Fyodorov “Eye Microsurgery”.
1997 - 2006 - assistant at the Chair of Ophthalmology, St. Petersburg MAPS.
2006 - to the present - Associate Professor of Chair of Ophthalmology, North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov.
2005- 2009 - Medical Director of the Chinese-Russian Ophthalmological Center at the 5th Clinic of Harbin Medical University (Daqing, China).
Awarded with the badge "Excellence in Health Care" of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (2015), "Veteran of Labor" (2015).
Since 2019 - Head of Refractive surgery and contact correction department at St. Petersburg branch of S. Fyodorov "Eye Microsurgery".
July 2019 - member of the ESCRS (European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons).
Scientific Work:
Author of 11 patents for inventions, more than 300 scientific publications, 3 monographs, including coauthored with prof. L.I. Balashevich - “Laser treatment of glaucoma” (2005), “Clinical corneotopography and aberrometry” (2008).
1997 - 2006 - Assistant of the Department of Ophthalmology, St. Petersburg MAPO.
2006 - to the present - Associate Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology, North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov.
Since 2004 has developed and implemented "Refractive Surgery" course into the teaching activities of the St. Petersburg branch; he is supervising this course on modern issues of excimer and femtosecond laser surgery for ophthalmic surgeons in Russia and foreign countries.
Hirsch index – 10.

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Kotzur Tatiana Vladimirovna
Ophthalmologist of the highest qualification category, candidate of medical sciences



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Matzko natalia Valentinona
Ophthalmologist



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Pogosyan Marina Anatolyevna
Ophthalmologist of the highest qualification category, Excellent Worker of Public Health



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