Dr. Amanjot Kaur Sandhu
Consultant in Cornea, Ocular Surface and Refractive Surgery
Cornea Transplant Surgeries
3000+ Total Cornea surgeries performed till time at LJ Eye Institute – Patiala.
Keratoconus
Handled 1900+ complex Keratoconus CXL surgeries performed
Cataract Surgeries
Performed 10000+ Cataract Surgeries & MICS by Phacoemulsification technique.
LASIK LASER
Performed 3000+ LASIK, ICL, Contoura Vision Surgery and PKR surgeries.
Dr. Amanjot Kaur Sandhu
Cornea Surgeon, Cataract Surgeon, LASIK LASER Surgeon
3+ Years Experience
Educational Qualification
MBBS: Government Medical College, Amritsar (Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab, India)
MS (Ophthalmology): Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India
MS (Ophthalmology): Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India
Other Qualification
- Fellow of International Council of Ophthalmology (FICO, United Kingdom)
- Member of Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS, Edinburgh)
- Member of AlOS
- Member of Cornea Society of India
Current Post Held
Consultant in Cornea, Ocular Surface and Refractive Surgery, LJ Eye Institute – Patiala, Patiala, Punjab, India 147001
Surgical Experiences
Cataracts
- SICS (Blumenthal) done independently (2000+)
- Confident in topical, temporal Phacoemulsification with foldable IOL (2000+)
- Confident in handling complicated scenarios like traumatic cataract, small pupil, pseudo-exfoliation and hyper-mature cataracts
- Can easily manage with pupillary expansion devices
- Can insert special IOLs- Toric IOL, Multifocal IOL, ACIOL, SFIOL, GIOL, Iris claws lenses
Cornea & Anterior Segment
- Confident in performing full thickness keratoplasties- Therapeutic and Optical Keratoplasty.
- Comfortable ni performing lamellar keratoplasties- DSEK (both manual and automated), DALK and DMEK.
- Can handle emergency corneal procedures- corneal tear repairs, lens aspiration, cyanoacrylate glue application, tenon’s patch graft, amniotic membrane transplantation
- Can perform corneal tattooing
- Confident in Iridodialysis Repair
Surgical Experiences
Ocular Surface
- Can perform pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft (suture/ fibrin glue)
- Confident in performing limbal dermoid excisions with corneal patch grafts
- Can manage sequelae of chemical injuries with AMG and Simple Limbal Epithelial transplantation
- Can perform Mucous Membrane Transplantation
- Has also performed Limbo-keratoplasties
- Comfortable in performing Type-1 Boston Kerato-prosthesis
Refractive Surgeries
- Confident in performing PRK and LASIK
- Can manage high myopias with Phakic IOLs
- Predicting chances of developing glaucoma in Ocular Hypertensive Patients
- To Evaluate the Differences in Visual Field Patterns of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma and Normal Tension Glaucoma
- Microsporidial stromal keratitis in an immunocompromised patient: Successful management with medical therapy
- Allogeneic simple limbal epithelial transplantation: an appropriate treatment for bilateral stem cell deficiency
- Pythium keratitis: Clinical profile, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, and histopathology features post-treatment at a tertiary eye care center in Eastern India
- Comment on “Oral Miltefosine as Salvage Therapy for Refractory Acanthamoeba Keratitis”
- Bilateral pellucid marginal degeneration with oculocutaneous albinism
- Microsporidia-induced stromal keratitis: a new cause of presumed immune stromal (interstitial) keratitis
- Preservation of Donor Corneal Epithelium in McCarey-Kaufman Medium
- Factors Affecting the Epithelial Integrity of Human Donor Corneas
- Managing a Case of Sub-conjunctival Metallic Foreign Body
- External Ophthalmomyiasis caused by larvae of Oestrus ovis
- A Tale of Two Patients
- Indications and types of keratoplasties: Trends in the past 10 years (2011-2020) in Eastern India
- Christmas tree cataract with posterior sub-capsular lenticular opacity
- Case Report: Managing a case of Tubercular Phlycten presenting as Sterile Corneal Perforation