Prevention for Cataract

Several strategies may be helpful, including :

Regularly eye-check
Reduce drinking and smoking
Wear sun glasses to block ultraviolet rays
Maintain your hearth condition well

1. Visual Acuity Test

: This test will find the “best corrected vision” for any visual problems.
We measure influence of cataract.

2. Slit lump examination

: The ophthalmologist will examine the cornea, iris, lens and the anterior chamber.
This test can help to determine muddy of your eyes.

3. Mydriasis examination

To check any abnormalities of your eye grand.

How to treat cataract?

We will treat light cataract with eye drops or oral medicine. If your eyes become muddy, you would not be able to recover clear eyesight. So only way to treat cataract is surgery.

What eye drops is used?

Name of medicine ingredients effect
Kary Uni Pyrenoxin To suppress muddy of lens in your eyes. This usually use to leave Early senile cataract.

Location

1-5-6,
Higashiikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170-0013

・1-minute walk from Ikebukuro station east exit.

・Our clinic is on the right side of “LABI (Yamada Denki)”.
The clinic is on the fifth floor of the building which “Bank of Mitsubishi UFJ” is on the first floor.

Doctor career

Director:Yoshiko Hori

(A board-certified ophthalmologist Ph.D)
English fluent

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Memberships

Japanese Ophthalmological Society
Japan Ophtalmologists Association
Japan Cornea Society
Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons
Japanese Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Career

1986： Graduate-School of Medicine of Iwate Medical University
1990： Post Graduate school of Iwate MedicalUniversity
1991： Iwate prefectural Ofunato hospital
1993： Department of Ophthalmology Iwate Medical University Instructor
1993： Schepens Eye Research Institute of Harvard University
1997： Department of Ophthalmology Tokyo Dental College
1997： Minami-Aoyama　Eye　Clinic
2008： Ichikawa general hospital Department of Ophthalmology Tokyo Dental College
2010： IkebukuroSunshineStreetEyeClinic(Director since 2010)

Main Research

The three-dimensional organization of collagen fibrils in the human cornea and sclera.(maiden name Komai)

Greeting

It is said that we are gaining 80 percent of the outside information through our eyes. Because we live in the information-intensive society nowadays, we tend to overuse our eyes at any times, and tend to suffer from various kinds of eye troubles.
Therefore, ophthalmological checkup and care has become significant.
If you have any concern about your eye condition, please feel free to consult us.
We will provide careful treatment and will try our best so that you can receive our consultation with full satisfaction.

Doctor:Yasuhiro Shinkawa

(A board-certified ophthalmologist)

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Memberships

Japan Ophthalmological Society
Japanese Retina and Vitreous Society
Japanese Society of Ophthalmic Surgeons

Career

2001： Graduate-Medical Department of Kumamoto University
2002： Department of Ophthalmology Kyoto University School of medicine
2002： Shimada Municipal Hospital
2008： Japanese Red Cross Society
2010： Kitano Hospital The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute
2014： Ikebukuro Sunshine Street Eye Clinic

Greeting

The eye clinic is the place where the patients, who have vision problems, can recover their eye function and feel how great ''I CAN SEE THINGS' 'is. When we share something impressive with the patients, we feel the happiest.
We’ll continue seeing the patients sincerely.
Thank you very much.

Ikebukuro Sunshine Street Eye Clinic