title: [The posterior chamber artificial crystalline lens implant in the diabetic patient].
abstract: The purpose of this study is to display the influence of diabetes on the course of the operation, postoperative complications and functional results in operated primary cataract.
  
  
  METHODS
  We performed a study on 72 eyes with cataract and diabetes operated in the University Eye Hospital from Cluj-Napoca during 1992-1997.
  
  
  RESULTS
  From the 72 cases, 58 had diabetes noninsuline dependent. Background diabetic retinopathy was present in only 18 cases. In 71 cases it was performed EEC + IOL-CP and 1 case with open angle glaucoma we made the triple procedure (EEC + CP-IOL + trabeculectomy). In 43 cases it was striate keratitis, in 30 eyes pigmentary migration and in 4 cases uveitis. As late postoperative complication we had 10 secondary cataract and i retinal detachment. Functional results were in majority cases between 0.1-0.3.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Diabetes do not influence the course of planned extracapsular extraction with PC-IOL, which is the best choice for the patients with cataract and diabetes. Functional results depends on the presence of diabetic retinopathy.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Oftalmologică Cluj-Napoca.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Nicula
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pop
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002648:Child; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology