What We Do
Glaucoma management has grown to be a very specialized sub-field of ophthalmology that benefits from the use of dedicated and highly technical equipment. Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care houses state-of-the-art equipment, and a patient's evaluation takes full advantage of all the powerful diagnostic techniques that are thereby available. Dr. Schumer and his staff at Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care employ a virtual arsenal of equipment which is, with regard to glaucoma evaluation and management, unique in the Hudson Valley and which is comparable to that found at any academic medical center in a major urban setting. Equipment includes:
- The Heidelberg spectral-domain OCT high-resolution 3-D anatomic imaging system
- Non-invasive optical angiography (ocular blood supply imaging)
- State-of-the-art visual field testing equipment (3 different machines)
- Ultra-wide-field high-resolution high-magnification photographic imaging of the inside of the eye (including wide-field fundus, peripheral retina, and optic nerve)
- 3 different therapeutic lasers for different kinds of glaucoma-related eye conditions (argon, Nd: Yag, SLT)
- High-resolution digital microphotography of the eye (anterior segment, retina, optic nerve)
- A variety of bio-mechanical assessments of the eye
Dr. Schumer is trained, skilled, and highly experienced at performing in-office laser surgery for Glaucoma and various complex surgical glaucoma procedures. He also brings to bear a rich body of scientific and clinical knowledge of ocular anatomy, physiology, and pathology as well as of mechanisms of disease. The staff at Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care are all highly trained, conscientious, and committed to attentive and intelligent patient care in general and to glaucoma diagnosis and treatment in particular. (You can see what other patients have had to say by clicking here).
The overall purpose and goal of our work at Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care is to diagnose and treat Glaucoma in all its manifestations, whether newly diagnosed, chronic and well-controlled, or advanced and/or poorly controlled. Dr. Schumer and his staff have extensive experience and expertise in treating all forms of narrow-angle and also open-angle Glaucoma. The experience of being a patient at Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care will be educational and enlightening and will involve you in an intensive and thorough evaluation. It will also include the development of a thoughtful and comprehensive management plan, the goal of which is to stabilize vision loss from Glaucoma in order to help to ensure good vision for the remainder of your life.
Hudson Valley Glaucoma Care Clinical Services
What We Offer
- Diagnosis, evaluation, and management of complex or advanced Glaucoma; of borderline Glaucoma; of disorders of intraocular pressure; of anatomically narrow-angle and angle-closure Glaucoma
- Visual field testing, both standard Humphrey visual field and Heidelberg Edge Perimeter Frequency-Defined Form testing, for comprehensive evaluation of all stages of glaucomatous vision loss
- Spectral-domain OCT of the posterior pole, including the retina, nerve fiber layer, and optic nerve
- Spectral-domain OCT of the anterior segment, including angles and cornea
- OCT angiography for assessing microvascular blood supply of the optic nerve and retina
- Digital external and slit lamp microphotography
- Ultra-wide-field and high-resolution retinal and optic nerve photography
- Fundus autofluorescence imaging
- Laser iridotomy (argon and Nd: Yag)
- Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT)
- Nd: Yag posterior laser capsulotomy
- Corneal pachymetry
- Specular corneal endothelial microscopy
- Pneumatonometry and ocular pulse analyzer for measurement of corneal hysteresis
