[Changes of the conjunctival nervous fillets in diabetic patients].
OBJECTIVE
Our study suggested to reveal nervous fillets changes from conjunctiva structure in patients with diabetes.


METHODS
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.
Ignat
Florica
F
Clinica de Oftalmologie Craiova.
Niculescu
Mihaela
M
Mănescu
Rodica
R
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001706:Biopsy; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000294:innervation* / Q000473:pathology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000473:pathology*; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008875:Middle Aged