[Does diabetic keratitis exist?]

Abstract

The cornea was thought to be not for a long time saved from the havoc of the diabetes. Last time a series of authors talk about a diabetic keratopathy. For the beginning the cornea endothelium was involved (changes of density and form of the cells) and last time the cornea epithelium was involved, some authors making a correlation between the diabetic neuropathy and keratopathy that consider a special entity, the diabetic keratopathy. We kept under the observation a group of diabetic patients who were hospitalized at our clinic of ambulatory examined for various complications of diabetes, in order to discover if it exist a relationship between the two affection, neuropathy and keratopathy. The number of the diabetic neuropathies is more less (13.3%) than that of the diabetic retinopathies or nephropathies. The keratopathies were observed for 6.6% (much inferior to other statistics). Half of the cases of keratopathies have presented either symptom of neuropathies or any other neurological charge; though for the first time it could be done the relationship between the two affections, the examination of the patients often pleads for coincidences; it's why we wonder if it really exist a diabetic keratopathy or a keratopathy at the diabetic patient.