Corneal confocal microscopy detects neuropathy in patients with type 1 diabetes without retinopathy or microalbuminuria.

<h4>Objective</h4>Corneal innervation is increasingly used as a surrogate marker of human diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) however its temporal relationship with the other microvascular complications of diabetes is not fully established. In this cross-sectional, observational study w...

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Main Authors: Ioannis N Petropoulos, Patrick Green, Agnes W S Chan, Uazman Alam, Hassan Fadavi, Andrew Marshall, Omar Asghar, Nathan Efron, Mitra Tavakoli, Rayaz A Malik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123517