Dr. Stephen Hing-lam Tsang M.D.
Ophthalmologist
635 W 165th St Box 92 New York NY, 10032Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Stephen Tsang is an ophthalmologist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Tsang specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Tsang 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. Tsang 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
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1998
Board Certification
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tracking RPE transplants labeled by retroviral gene transfer with green fluorescent protein.
- A point mutation (W70A) in the rod PDE-gamma gene desensitizing and delaying murine rod photoreceptors.
- Local immunosuppression prolongs survival of RPE xenografts labeled by retroviral gene transfer.
- In vivo studies of the gamma subunit of retinal cGMP-phophodiesterase with a substitution of tyrosine-84.
- The positive role of the carboxyl terminus of the gamma subunit of retinal cGMP-phosphodiesterase in maintaining phosphodiesterase activity in vivo.
- Lentiviral transduction of green fluorescent protein in retinal epithelium: evidence of rejection.
- Retinal degeneration and RPE transplantation in Rpe65(-/-) mice.
- Stationary night blindness or progressive retinal degeneration in mice carrying different alleles of PDE gamma.
- 300 MHz proton NMR study of the differentiation of diploid human epidermal keratinocytes.
- Transgenic mice carrying the H258N mutation in the gene encoding the beta-subunit of phosphodiesterase-6 (PDE6B) provide a model for human congenital stationary night blindness.
- Transducin translocation in rods is triggered by saturation of the GTPase-activating complex.
- Novel phenotypic and genotypic findings in X-linked retinoschisis.
- Electronegative electroretinogram associated with topiramate toxicity and vitelliform maculopathy.
- Non-vascular vision loss in pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
- Modulation of phosphodiesterase6 turnoff during background illumination in mouse rod photoreceptors.
Treatments
- Diabetes
- Macular Degeneration
- Glaucoma
- Retinal Detachment
- Uveitis
- Type 2 Diabetes
Fellowships
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
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