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Miss Shveta Bansal

Consultant Ophthalmologist MBBS, MA Hons, MSc, MRCS, FRCOphth
Claimants and DefendantsRemote AppointmentsFace to Face AppointmentsDesktop Reports16+ Patients

Medico-Legal Experience

Miss Bansal is a Consultant Ophthalmologist who has acted as an Expert Witness for over 3 years. She has completed Bond Solon Expert Witness training and is instructed by Claimants and Defendants in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

  • Cataract surgery
  • Neuro-ophthalmology and Strabismus (squint) surgery

Managing complex neurological and neurosurgical problems that impact vision:

  • Trauma
  • Surgery
  • Brain tumours
  • Optic nerve and raised intracranial pressure

Miss Bansal’s waiting time for appointments is 1 week and turnaround time for reports is 4-6 weeks.

Clinical Experience

Miss Bansal has been an Ophthalmologist over 20 years, she qualified from Cambridge University followed by Guy’s Kings and St Thomas’ School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She has a special interest in Neuro-ophthalmology and Strabismus that came from completing a post CCT fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology and Strabismus in Aintree University Hospital/Walton Centre. Miss Bansal manages general and acute ophthalmology cases and is also the clinical director for her service. She has a special interest in Neuro-ophthalmology and Strabismus.

Publications

1. Bitemporal Hemianopia and the Tilted Disc
Bansal S, Mohammed S, Gillow T. BMJ, Oct 2004; 329: p1054

2. Letter in response : A mechanical theory to account for bitemporal hemianopia from chiasmal compression
Bansal S, Kumar N, Kyle G. Journ of Neuroophthalmology, Sept 2006; 26(3), p233

3. Unaugmented vertical muscle transposition surgery for chronic sixth nerve palsy
Bansal S, Khan J, Marsh I. Strabismus, Dec 2006; 14(4), p177-181

4. Pituitary tumour presenting as a painful third nerve palsy
Bansal S, Mandal K, Kamal A. BMC Ophth, Mar 2007, 7(4)

5. Vestibular schwannoma (Acoustic Neuroma) and the facial nerve
Agrawal S, Bansal S, Saeed S. CME Journ Ophth 2007; 8(3): 56-58

6. Pseudo-Foster Kennedy Syndrome due to unilateral optic nerve hypoplasia
Bansal S, Dabbs T, Long V. Journ of Med Case Reports 2008, 2(8)

7. Spontaneous Resolution of Congenital Browns Syndrome
Bansal S, Kumar N, Marsh I. Cases Journal.May 2008, 1:7

8. The role of botulinum toxin in decompensated strabismus
Bansal S, Khan J, Marsh I. Strabismus. 2008, 16(3), p107-111

9. Atypical Parainfectious Optic Neuritis in adults.
Bansal S, Chawla A, Qureshi K, Zermansky A, Vishwanath M. Published abstract ; Neuroophthalmology Apr 2013

10. Traumatic chiasmal syndrome – a case report.
Bansal S, Kumar N, Kyle G. Int Journ of Ophthalmic Pathology, 2013

11. Hypotension-induced blindness in haemodialysis patients
S Bansal, A Ansons, M Vishwanath. Clin Kidney J (2014) 7 (4): p387-390.

12. Neurosarcoidosis presenting as a pupil involving third nerve palsy.
S Bansal, Yin K, Vishwanath MR, Ansons A. Neuroophth, Oct 2014; 38(5): p278-28

13. Unaugmented Muscle Union Surgery for Heavy Eye Syndrome.
S Bansal, I B Marsh, Journal of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2016; 53(1): p 40-43

14. Botulinum toxin into the inferior oblique – a postoperative diplopia test for secondary inferior oblique overaction.
S Bansal, I B Marsh, Journal of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismuss, 2016: 53(2): p 80-84

15. Iatrogenic positive vertical forced duction test secondary to eyelid speculum.
S Bansal, A Ansons, A Ansons, Transactions of ESA ; 2016

16. Characteristics and Management of stretched scar/empty sheath in consecutive exotropia, ESA transactions 2017

17. Outcomes in patients undergoing transsphenoidal surgery for non functioning pituitary macroadenomas at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Lee, R.S.M., Subramanian, V., Gregson, S., Mathur, S., Bansal, S., Jain, S., Golash, A., Roberts, G., De, C.J., Pappachan, J. and Howell, S., 2019, November. In Society for Endocrinology BES 2019 (Vol. 65). BioScientifica.

18. A rare case of cyclotorsion due to medial rectus displacement and inferior rectus restriction following orbital trauma – E Green, H Harwood, S Bansal British Irish Orthoptist Journal (2020)

19. Risk of torsion in superior rectus transposition surgery augmented with posterior scleral fixation sutures, S. Bansal & E. K. Y. Green (2021) Strabismus, 29:4, 209-215

20. Cystoid macular oedema in Cogans Syndrome Pherwani A, Bansal S, Agrawal S, Gillow T. Cases Journal, 2008 (1), p339

21. Lacrimal sac mucus secreting adenocarcinoma
Bansal S, Hsuan J, Khan A. Orbit, May 2008; 27(3), p199-201

22. The accuracy of biometric calculation of IOL power in a dilated pupil
Bansal S, Quah S, Turpin T, Batterbury M. Clin Exp Ophth, Mar 2008; 36(2), p156-158

23. Bilateral hypopyon and vitritis associated with rifabutin therapy in an immunocompetent patient taking Itraconazole
Saha N, Bansal S, Bishop F, McWhinney P. Eye. Jun 2009; 23, p1481

24. HTRA1 promotor SNP rs11200638 genotype and sex predict response to ranibizumab treatment in age related macular degeneration (AMD)
Inglehearn CF, Ali M, Baxter P, Bansal S, West K, Williams G, McKibbin M
Published abstract : American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010

25. The management of “Coats’ Response” in a patient with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa. Bansal S, Saha N, Woon WH. ISRN Surgery, 2011; 970361.

26. CFH, VEGF and HTRA1 promoter genotype may influence the initial response to intra-vitreal ranibizumab therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. McKibbin M, Manir A, Bansal S, Baxter P. West K, Williams G, Cassidy F, Inglehearn C. Br J Ophthalmol. 2012 Feb;96(2), p208-12

27. Spontaneous anterior dislocation of a mature cataract following old trauma to the eye. Bansal S, Taherian K. Emergency Medicine Journal 07/2011; 28(10):895

28. A Safe, Efficacious and Cost Effective Way of Delivering Subtenons Anaesthesia During Cataract Surgery. Jasani K, Bansal S, Taherian K. Ophthal Research, 2014

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