Corneal nerve fiber loss in diabetes with chronic kidney disease.

CONCLUSION: Corneal confocal microscopy detects corneal nerve loss in patients with diabetic CKD and reduction in corneal nerve parameters is associated with the decline of kidney function.
PMID: 31770601 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Ocular Surface - November 22, 2019 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tummanapalli SS, Issar T, Yan A, Kwai N, Poynten AM, Krishnan AV, Willcox MDP, Markoulli M Tags: Ocul Surf Source Type: research