Nebraska Medicine pediatric eye care providers provide comprehensive eye care and a sub-specialty referral center for pediatric eye care in our region. Partnership with Children's Hospital & Medical Center and a focus on clinical pediatric eye disease research equals the highest level of care and leading edge treatments offered. Vision screening is vital as a part of pediatric health care, screening is recommended starting at infancy and carried along throughout your lifetime.
Pediatric Eye Conditions Treated at Nebraska Medicine
Our pediatric eye specialists care for the most common conditions like pink eye, to the most complex and potentially blinding conditions. Common conditions we treat include:
- Astigmatism
- Eye infection
- Eye injury
- Congential cataracts
- Glaucoma
- Low vision
- Ptosis
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Strabismus
- Tear duct blockage
- Vision correction including: nearsightedness, farsightedness and lazy eye
Board Certified, Fellowship Trained Specialists
We specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of eye-related disease and conditions. Few eye care centers have as many sub-specialists under one roof. Experienced general and subspecialty ophthalmologists are on staff, specializing in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of eye diseases. Our optometrists provide basic eye care, prescribing vision correction care and screening for the development of more serious eye conditions.
Regional Diagnostic Center
This center features state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment not available anywhere else, including high resolution optical coherence tomography, adaptive optics, microperimetry, and wide field imaging and angiography used for patient care and research.
Vision Correction
We offer a full range of vision correction options. Visit The Optical Shop conveniently located at both Nebraska Medicine Truhlsen Eye Institute locations.
Top Ranked Facilities
U.S News & World Report has named Nebraska Medicine the #1 hospital in the state for several years in a row. Our state-of-the-art facilities designed to transform eye care in Nebraska for generations to come.