0000-0001-6812-1894 About
Umesh Chandra Behera, an alumnus of Sainik School Bhubaneswar and MKCG Medical College in Berhampur, Odisha, earned his master's in Ophthalmology from MKCG Medical College. He completed a Retina and Vitreous fellowship at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai before joining the institute in 2006. In 2012, he moved to the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar. His clinical focus is on treating vitreoretinal diseases in both children and adults. He has participated in more than 25 international clinical trials related to these conditions and authored more than 90 peer-reviewed papers. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for several global journals and has received awards for his contributions to the vitreoretinal literature. His interests include vitreoretinal surgery, diabetic retinopathy, ocular infections, and central serous chorioretinopathy.
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L V Prasad Eye Institute Network associate director2012 - Present
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Publications (68)
- A Randomized-Controlled Trial of the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in Patients With Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy With Persistent Fluid in the Absence of Choroidal Neovascular Membrane—BRICS Trial Report II Save
- Inner Choroidal Fibrosis: An Optical Coherence Tomography Biomarker of Severity in Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Save
- Antibiotic susceptibility in Endophthalmitis Management Study and intravitreal antibiotic practice trend in India—EMS Report #5 Save
- Radiation chorioretinopathy: unusual occurrence of intervortex venous anastomosis Save
- Endophthalmitis Management Study- a prospective randomized clinical trial on postoperative endophthalmitis management in India: An interim analysis. EMS Report # 3 Save
- Application and validation of a novel inflammatory score in the clinical grading of infectious endophthalmitis: The endophthalmitis management study - Report 2 Save
- Bilateral astrocytic hamartoma with vasoproliferative tumour in retinitis pigmentosa Save
- Burden of undiagnosed and suboptimally controlled diabetes in selected regions of India: Results from the SMART India population-level diabetes screening study Save
- Endophthalmitis Management Study- a prospective randomized clinical trial on postoperative endophthalmitis management in India: An interim analysis. EMS Report # 3 Save
- Post-vitrectomy secondary macular holes: Risk factors, clinical features, and multivariate analysis of outcome predictors Save