Stefan Sacu

Dr. Stefan Sacu is the outstanding eye specialist. You are looking for: 

➢ Amedical specialist for ophthalmology and optometry 

➢ Aspecialist for cataract and retinal surgery 

➢ Aspecialist for macular and retinal diseases 

➢ Clinical experience including research work 

➢ The appropriate team 

➢ Latest state-of-the-art equipment 

➢ Courteous service 

➢ An ordination with comfortable ambiance

Recent Scientific Projects

• New therapies for exudative macula diseases

• Management of therapy refractory exudative maculardegeneration

• Pathogenesis of retinal vein occlusions

• Optimizing the local therapy after intravitreal injections

• Correlation of morphological, angiographic and functional results in different retinal diseases

• Long term therapeutic effect of intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in different retinal diseases

• Examination of cytokines in the eye in different retinal diseases

• Mutation analysis and genetic mapping in different retinal dystrophies

• Evaluation of new pharmacological therapeutic options with electrophysiological methods in macular diseases

• Establishment of genetic therapies for the treatment of hereditary retinal diseases (in cooperation with the Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology of the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Jean Bennett)

Stefan Sacu, MD, has been a resident at the Department of   Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna, since 1999. His research interests include cataract surgery and PCO retina and macula. He taught ophthalmology to the nursing staff from 2003 -2004 at the Kaiserin- Elisabeth-Hospital,Vienna,and since 2001, he has taught practical ophthalmology for medical students at the Medical University of Vienna. His awards include the May 2003 “Theodor-Koerner Science Price”. Dr. Sacu is a member of the DGII (German Speaking Society of Intraocular   Lens Implantation) and ESCRS (European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons)