Rashmi Akshikar - Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
Miss Rashmi Akshikar is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at The Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust practising at the Western Eye Hospital at Marylebone and the Charing Cross Hospital at Hammersmith. Miss Akshikar is a world-renowned specialist in treating eye inflammation, cataract surgeries and managing complex retinal diseases.
Besides Imperial Private Eyes, Miss Akshikar offers private consultations at many prestigious private hospitals in central London. Remote video / telephone consultations are also available.
Contact: secretary@rashmiakshikar.com

Cataract and Cataract surgery
Cataract is the progressive clouding of the lens, commonly affecting people above 65 years of age resulting in visual impairment decreasing the quality of life.

Diabetes and diabetic eye disease
Diabetic eye disease is a complication of diabetes damaging the back of the eye or the retina.

Age related macular degeneration and treatments
Macular degeneration is the most common cause of sight impairment over those aged 50 years and affects central vision, thus making daily activities like reading and recognising faces difficult.

Eye Injections for Retinal conditions –Intravitreal AntiVegF and Steroid implants
Injections in the cavity of the eye or jelly termed as vitreous have revolutionised and become the state of art treatment for conditions such as age related macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease – maculopathy & retinopathy, retinal vein occlusions and complex retinal pathology.

Laser treatments
Eye lasers are used to treat the front, angle and back of the eye. The most common laser treatment called YAG capsulotomy is performed to get rid of the membrane formed behind the artificial lens following a cataract surgery.

Inflammatory eye disease
Inflammation of the eye is a generalised term used to describe redness, pain, swelling, light sensitivity any associated visual disturbance of the eye.

Immuno modulatory therapies including biologics
There are very few trained ocular immunologists in the world that can manage severe sight threatening ocular inflammation. It needs a very niche and specialised expertise and knowledge to administer these very advanced drugs used for cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Minor operative procedures and ocular emergency treatments
This include procedures to diagnose / treat watery eyes as flushing the tear ducts and three snip procedures

Multi and interdisciplinary care (Medical Ophthalmology)
Multi and interdisciplinary care. (Medical Ophthalmology)