Diabetes mellitus: ophthalmologic manifestations

Authors

  • Ricardo Granado Pérez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Betuel Yermat Pérez Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

diabetes mellitus/complications, diabetic retinopathy

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is caused by an alteration of the carbohydrate metabolism which leads to the appearance of excessive amounts of glucose in blood and sometime in the urine. This produces alterations in all the structures of the eyeball, being diabetic retinopathy the most frequent and precocious complication. It is caused as a result of a prolonged hyperglycemia; with cell, capillary and neurosensory alterations in the retina. It represents the first cause of blindness in the adult population of the industrialized countries, and its development is associated to the duration of the illness and poor glycemic control.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Ricardo Granado Pérez, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Oftalmología. Máster en Atención Integral a la Mujer.

Betuel Yermat Pérez, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I Grado en Medicina General Integral. Máster en Atención Integral a la Mujer.

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
Granado Pérez R, Yermat Pérez B. Diabetes mellitus: ophthalmologic manifestations. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2010 Jul. 10 [cited 2025 Jul. 1];4(3):67-74. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/524

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 3 (2010): July-September

Section

Review Articles

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).