Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in adults less than 70 years of age in the western world (Kempen, et al., 2004). It is estimated that 1 in 29 Americans 40 years and older has diabetic retinopathy (4.1 million persons) and 1 in 132 persons has visionthreatening DR (Kempen et al., 2004). Diabetic retinopathy is characterized by microvascular changes. Despite the fact t...

Our preliminary report on the treatment of diabetic maculopathy concerned 44 eyes in forty consecutive patients treated during the 2 years prior to January, I971 (Rubinstein andMyska, I972). Duringthefollowing 2 years (untilJanuary, 1973) yet another 77 eyes (in 72 patients) have been treated in a similar manner, bringing our clinical material to I12 I eyes in I I 2 patients with a follow-up of...

BACKGROUND Studies from India on sputum conversion and tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes among TB patients with diabetes are limited. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to estimate the proportion of sputum smear conversion and successful treatment outcomes among diabetic-TB patients treated under Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP). METHODOLOGY Information on TB disease, ...

We can hardly regard as diabetes a glycosuria which so far as we know is only temporary, and not accompanied by excessive thirst or polyuria; but on the other hand, we cannot say, because sugar appears in the urine for the first time whilst the patient is under our observation, that it is only temporary diabetes, for the glycosuria may really have only been temporarily absent. In such a case if...

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Thermal thresholds can be measured psychophysically using either the method of limits or a forced-choice method. We have compared the two methods in 367 diabetic patients, 128 with symptomatic neuropathy. The Sensortek method was chosen for the forced-choice device, the Somedic modification of the Marstock method for a method of limits. Cooling and heat pain thresholds were also measured using ...

MONONEURITIS AND ENTRAPMENT SYNDROMES — Peripheral neuropathies in diabetes are a diverse group of syndromes, not all of which are the common distal symmetric polyneuropathy. The focal and multifocal neuropathies are confined to the distribution of single or multiple peripheral nerves and their involvement is referred to as mononeuropathy or mononeuritis multiplex. Mononeuropathies are due to v...