Eye Institute of California

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As a Scripps Affiliated Medical Groups practice, Eye Institute of California in Chula Vista provides surgical and medical ophthalmology from 311 Del Mar Avenue, staffed by retina and anterior-segment specialists including Dr. Sona Shah (USC Keck School of Medicine) and Dr. Jessica Maslin. Complex ocular cases requiring hospital-based intervention — retinal detachment repair, penetrating globe injury, and orbital fracture management — route through Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center on nearby Medical Center Drive, where the emergency department handles initial trauma stabilization. The multi-physician group model allows subspecialty triage within the practice, directing macular-degeneration patients to retina specialists and cataract candidates to anterior-segment surgeons without external referral delays. Neuro-ophthalmic presentations — optic neuritis, cranial-nerve palsies affecting extraocular motility, and idiopathic intracranial hypertension — may warrant psychiatric or neuropsychological co-evaluation at KMG Psychiatry when visual symptoms overlap with mood or cognitive disturbances. Anti-VEGF intravitreal injections deliver ranibizumab or aflibercept in 0.05-milliliter doses through a 30-gauge needle into the vitreous cavity, targeting choroidal neovascularization in wet age-related macular degeneration at four-to-eight-week retreatment intervals.