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Corneal Nerve Loss Detected With Corneal Confocal Microscopy Is Symmetrical and Related to the Severity of Diabetic Polyneuropathy

OBJECTIVE: To establish if corneal nerve loss, detected using in vivo corneal confocal microscopy (IVCCM), is symmetrical between right and left eyes and relates to the severity of diabetic neuropathy. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Patients (n = 111) with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and 47 age-matched...

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Autores principales: Petropoulos, Ioannis N., Alam, Uazman, Fadavi, Hassan, Asghar, Omar, Green, Patrick, Ponirakis, Georgios, Marshall, Andrew, Boulton, Andrew J.M., Tavakoli, Mitra, Malik, Rayaz A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Diabetes Association 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23877983
http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc13-0193