Purna Nangia

I'm an ophthalmologist, specializing in vitreo-retinal diseases. Areas of interest include adult vitreo-retinal diseases and ocular oncology.

Currently working as a research assistant at the ocular oncology services at the Byers Eye institute at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Trained in Kathak - a form of Indian classical Dance

Research projects :
1. Paper presentation - MEDICON 2012

"Comparison of Colour fundus photography and Infra red imaging in detecting Beta zone in subjects with POAG"

2. ICMR STS 2014 

"An evaluation and perception of parents towards child sexual abuse in Wardha District of Central India"

3. Jonas JB, Nangia V, Wang N, Bhate K, Nangia P, Nangia P, Yang D, Xie X, Panda-Jonas S. Trans-lamina cribrosa pressure difference and open-angle glaucoma. The central India eye and medical study. PLoS One. 2013 Dec 6;8(12):e82284. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082284. PMID: 24324767; PMCID: PMC3855749.

4. Nangia V, Jonas JB, Matin A, Bhojwani K, Sinha A, Kulkarni M, Gupta R, Khare A, Agarwal S, Bhate K, Nangia P, Nangia P, Panda-Jonas S. Prevalence and associated factors of glaucoma in rural central India. The Central India Eye and Medical Study. PLoS One. 2013 Sep 30;8(9):e76434. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076434. PMID: 24098790; PMCID: PMC3787001.

5. Nangia P, Shah D, Saurabh K, Roy R. Efficacy of anti-VEGF in the treatment of choroidal neovascular membrane secondary to pattern dystrophy simulating fundus flavimaculatus. GMS Ophthalmol Cases 2019;9:Doc21.

6. Saurabh K, Roy R, Sinharoy S, Shah D, Nangia P. Measurement of size of pigmented choroidal nevus: Superiority of multicolor imaging compared to conventional color fundus photography. Indian J Ophthalmol 2018;66(10):1501-1503.

7. Mishra S, Goel S, Nangia P, Senger D, Shah AV, Saurabh K, et al. Acute macular neuroretinopathy after blunt ocular trauma: A rare association. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:566-8.

8. Nangia P, Goel S, Shah D, Nigam E, Saurabh K, Roy R. Imaging choroidal knuckle. Clin Exp Optom. 2019 Jul;102(4):442. 

9. Dhaivat Shah., et al. "Four in One: Multimodal Imaging of Four Disparate Retinal Pathologies in One Eye". Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 5.12 (2022): 41-43.

10. Nangia P, Prakash VJ, Dutta Majumder P. Retinal venous occlusion in a child following Corbevax COVID-19 vaccination. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2022 Oct;70(10):3713-3715. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1927_22. PMID: 36190080; PMCID: PMC9789814.

Retina Image Bank:  

1. Imaging modalities in ERM (Epi retinal membrane) - Dr. Dhaivat Shah, Dr. Eesh Nigam, Dr. Purna Nangia

2. Exudative PCV (Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy) - Dr. Dhaivat Shah, Dr. Eesh Nigam, Dr. Purna Nangia

Paper presentation:

1. "Multimodal imaging in Outer retinal lesions" - Dr. Purna Nangia, Dr. Rupak Roy, Dr. Kumar Saurabh, Dr. P K Chatterjee post graduate free paper presentation, Kolkata 2018.

Poster presentation:

1. "Multimodal imaging in Outer retinal lesions" - Dr. Purna Nangia, Retina Debate, Kolkata 2019.

2. "Traumatic NLDO due to malpositioned medial wall implant impinging over the lacrimal sac" - Dr Purna Nangia, Dr Md Shahid Alam, Ocular Traumacon, Chennai 2018.

3. "Diagnostic utility of swept source OCT biometry and colour fundus photographs compared to spectral domain OCT in center involving diabetic macular edema" - Dr Purna Nangia, Rajiv Raman, Retina Debate, Kolkata 2023.