Dr. Quresh Maskati

MS, FCPS, DOMS, FICS

Maskati Eye Clinic,23, M. Karve Rd. Mumbai 400004,Email: qureshmaskati@gmail.com.

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Dr. Quresh Maskati did his graduation& post-graduation from KEM Hospital, Bombay University, obtaining his M.S. & D.O.M.S & F.C.P.S. Degrees, all in 1983, with a gold medal in DOMS. Superspecialised in diseases of the cornea and anterior segment microsurgery from Rochester and Boston, USA, he joined as a lecturer at Nair Hospital for a year, before starting private practice in 1986. He has many scientific publications and chapters in various books to his credit. He has published a book “Simplifying Eye Care” available in book stores, for the general public, in June 2010. Second edition released in July 2013. He was the president of Maharashtra Ophthalmological Society (94-95) and Bombay Ophthalmologists’ Association (2000-01). He is the youngest person in the history of these societies to hold these posts. He served All India Ophthalmological Society (AIOS) as President for 2014-15. AIOS is the largest life member national Ophthalmic Society in the world with approximately 18,000 members. It is also the only time in AIOS history that father and son have held this coveted post (Dr. B. T. Maskati was President AIOS in 1987-88)

  1. Blog 23 Apr 2020 5 min read

    What Does an Average Ophthalmologist Do During the COVID Lockdown?

    A short and sweet answer to the above question is: “How would I know?” I am not average – I am above average, just like my readers. Let us just proceed with my occasionally incoherent ramblings and disregard the irrelevant title of this piece. When the first ‘stay at home’ announcement came, we had already been reading about this tiny but mean virus which originated in big bad China and was slowly spreading its tentacles (not sure if you could call its spiky hairstyle as ‘tentacles’, but we will let that pass) in our beloved country. Hence we felt very patriotic and decided to co-operate with the authorities. We even put on a ‘son et lumeire’ (sound and light) show on request from the guy at the top; first sound at 5 pm and then light at 9 pm (on different days of course as decided by several astrologers). We reasoned with ourselves that a couple of weeks at home couldn’t really hurt – we will just pretend we had gone on a vacation, minus the expenses! Many of us even learnt new skills

    Dr. Quresh Maskati, MS, FCPS, DOMS, FICS
  2. Articles 5 Apr 2020 14 min read

    Dry Eye – A Review

    INTRODUCTION: There are several definitions for dry eye available in world literature. The one that I prefer is the following: Dry eye is a disease in which there is a qualitative and /or quantitative decline in the tears accompanied by disorders of the ocular surface. The new definition proposed by the Dry Eye Workshop (DEWS) in 2006-07 states: Dry eye is a multifactorial disease of tear film & ocular surface resulting in symptoms of ocular discomfort, visual disturbance and tear film instability with potential damage to the ocular surface. This is associated with hyperosmolarity of the tear film and inflammation of ocular surface It is important that dry eye is recognized as a disease entity and not merely regarded as a nuisance. This definition also makes clear that one can have dry eye even in the presence of epiphora, as the quality of the tears may be inadequate to provide lubrication, with normal quantity of tear production. Also, even if the quality and quantity of tears is ini

    Dr. Quresh Maskati, MS, FCPS, DOMS, FICS
  3. Blog 25 Feb 2020 5 min read

    The Day My Patient Died

    This patient had come from 1200 km away. He was a 35 year old male with rheumatoid arthritis with bilateral corneal opacities with bilateral peripheral corneal melts. In addition, the left eye had facial palsy with corneal exposure on attempted lid closure. Vision was only perception of light with accurate projection both eyes. He had multiple medical problems besides his rheumatoid arthritis. He gave history of stroke with left sided hemiparesis 6 months prior. There was still residual weakness of motor function left upper extremity as well as left facial palsy as mentioned earlier. He had aortic stenosis with aortic regurgitation. However, he had been investigated extensively by a local cardiologist, including 2D echo studies and pronounced “fit for surgery”. After discussion with my anaesthetist, it was decided to do bilateral amniotic membrane transplant with left eye lateral one-third tarsorapphy under general anaesthesia. She felt that the ejection fraction of the heart was good,

    Dr. Quresh Maskati, MS, FCPS, DOMS, FICS
  4. Blog 21 Feb 2020 4 min read

    Ramblings of a white bearded Ophthalmologist

    It gives me great pleasure to interact with fellow ophthalmologists through this blog. Those of you who are reading this but for some strange reason are not yet AIOS members; please assume I am annoyed with you. You may even stop reading at this point. To the rest of the "normal" readers, I wish you a wonderful 2016 Let us start at the beginning and recount a couple of interesting episodes from my student days in GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai. As an undergraduate student, I get a foreign body, cornea. I rush to the eye OPD at 8am on a weekday, with pain redness, watering and FB sensation, OD. The houseman (junior resident) on duty examines me and pronounces gravely, “you have a FB on cornea” and takes me to the registrar (senior resident). He looks at it with an even more powerful torch and repeats the same diagnosis. I am now escorted to the lecturer and my history and the examination findings are repeated to him. He takes me to the regular slit lamp and after a careful

    Dr. Quresh Maskati, MS, FCPS, DOMS, FICS