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[Changes of the conjunctival nervous fillets in diabetic patients]
Florica Ignat1, Mihaela Niculescu, Rodica Mănescu
1Clinica de Oftalmologie Craiova.
Purpose:
Our study suggested to reveal nervous fillets changes from conjunctiva structure in patients with diabetes.
Material And Method:
We removed bulbar conjunctiva during cataract surgery on diabetic and non-diabetic patients from the same age group. The conjunctiva fragments were fixed in Lillie's solution, then studied by using optical microscopy with usual and histochemical stainings.
Results:
Nervous fillets just like perinervium are better represented in younger diabetic patients without diabetic retinopathy or with early diabetic retinopathy and non-diabetic patients, too. In older patients and old diabetes, nervous fillets are much less in number with poor represented perinervium.
Conclusions:
Significant changes of the conjunctiva nervous fillets were found in patients with long-term diabetes.
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