Corneal Keratocyte Density and Corneal Nerves Are Reduced in Patients With Severe Obesity and Improve After Bariatric Surgery

PURPOSE: Obesity is associated with peripheral neuropathy, which bariatric surgery may ameliorate. The aim of this study was to assess whether corneal confocal microscopy can show a change in corneal nerve morphology and keratocyte density in subjects with severe obesity after bariatric surgery. MET...

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Autores principales: Iqbal, Zohaib, Kalteniece, Alise, Ferdousi, Maryam, Adam, Safwaan, D'Onofrio, Luca, Ho, Jan H., Rao, Anoop Prasanna, Dhage, Shaishav, Azmi, Shazli, Liu, Yifen, Donn, Rachelle, Malik, Rayaz A., Soran, Handrean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2021
Materias:
Cornea
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33475689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.62.1.20

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