Cole Eye Institute Outcomes

A dedicated surgical team of surgeons, nurses, and skilled technicians at the Vitreoretinal Department at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute has developed several new surgical procedures that are now used worldwide to treat conditions such as retinal detachment, diabetic macular edema, diabetic traction retinal detachments, and myopic macular holes, and for microincision surgery and pediatric retinal surgery. Members of the team have also helped develop the next generation of vitreoretinal surgical devices including microincision surgical instruments and techniques. As a leader in the field of intraoperative optical coherence tomography, the Ophthalmic Imaging Center at Cole Eye Institute is developing new uses for this pioneering technology, next generation optical coherence tomography, and the use of artificial intelligence and deep learning to analyze images.

The team performed 1271 surgical procedures in 2023. Detailed outcomes were tracked on 1033 of these procedures. Of these, 956 were performed at main campus; the remainder (77) were performed at Cleveland Clinic regional sites.