Dr. Parul Chawla Gupta

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh

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Dr. Parul Chawla Gupta is Assistant Professor in Department of Ophthalmology at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Her interests include pediatric cataract surgery, lamellar corneal procedures and community ophthalmology. She has done her observership in Cataract, Cornea and Refractive surgery from Harvard, Massacheussets Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston and Tufts Medical Hospital and Schepens Eye Research Center, Boston in May 2013. She has over 80 indexed publications in peer-reviewed journals and 6 book chapters. She has been instrumental in wet lab, simulator and surgical training of residents. She has been the Nodal officer for Naraingarh and Sangrur satellite centers of PGIMER.

  1. Interesting Reads 1 Apr 2021 8 min read

    Ten Tips for the Beginners for Performing Pediatric Cataract Surgery

    Congenital cataract has a worldwide prevalence of 4.24 per 10,000 people, with the largest prevalence found in Asia (1). It is one of the most important causes of treatable causes of childhood blindness (2). 1.Timing of cataract surgery In order to prevent stimulus deprivation amblyopia, children with dense visually significant bilateral congenital cataracts, surgery should be done at around 6–8 weeks of age (3) and in children with a unilateral visually significant cataract it should be done at the age group of 4-6 weeks (4) due to increased rates of postoperative glaucoma in the first four weeks of life (5). 2.Biometry In small children, axial length can be measured using an immersion/contact A-scan or B-scan ultrasonography. While using contact A-scan values, the value with maximum anterior chamber depth should be chosen to offset the inadvertent indentation of the cornea with the A-scan probe (6). Keratometry values can be obtained using an auto-keratometer. Readings should prefera

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