Dr. Ingrid U Scott MD
Ophthalmologist
500 University Dr Hershey PA, 17033About
Dr. Ingrid Scott is an ophthalmologist practicing in Hershey, PA. Dr. Scott specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Scott can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Scott can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 1993
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Dr. Ingrid U Scott MD's Expert Contributions
Can doing eye exercises help my eyes?
No, eye exercises have not been demonstrated to improve near-sightedness; prolonged near work in childhood has been reported to be a risk factor for the development of near-sightedness, and children who wear glasses with a prescription for near-sightedness which is too strong may actually develop more near-sightedness than if they wear glasses with a prescription, which undercorrects their near-sightedness. READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diffuse and circumscribed choroidal hemangiomas in a patient with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
- Reproducibility of measures of overuse of cataract surgery by three physician panels.
- Validity of the visual function index (VF-14) in patients with retinal disease.
- Acute bilateral visual loss associated with retinal hemorrhages following epiduroscopy.
- Thyroid eye disease.
- Complications of systemic chemotherapy as treatment of retinoblastoma.
- Endogenous endophthalmitis caused by Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum: a case report and literature review.
- Intravitreal antiviral injections as adjunctive therapy in the management of immunocompetent patients with necrotizing herpetic retinopathy.
- Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in retinoblastoma patients undergoing chemoreduction and cryotherapy.
- Bilateral diffuse choroidal hemangiomas with unilateral facial nevus flammeus in Sturge-Weber syndrome.
- Intermediate-term outcomes of 350-mm(2) Baerveldt glaucoma implants.
- Endogenous Pseudallescheria boydii endophthalmitis in a patient with ring-enhancing brain lesions.
- Extraocular muscle metastasis 16 years following primary prostate carcinoma.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Macular Degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Type 2 Diabetes
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