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Cataract and Diabetic Retinopathy

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Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a frequently occurring metabolic disease in the western world and is a major cause of loss of vision. In diabetic patients, the lack of adequate control over circulating glucose concentrations affects different structures of the visual system, including the crystalline lens. To obtain better cataract treatment results in diabetics, it is necessary to adopt a multidisciplinary approach which combines adequate metabolic control, diabetic retinopathy (DR) treatment, and the appropriate surgical technique.

Recently introduced anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) drugs used in conjunction with laser retinal photocoagulation and a minimally invasive cataract surgical technique have significantly improved the prognosis of diabetic cataract patients.

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Abbreviations

AGE:

Advanced glycation end-products

DM:

Diabetes mellitus

DR:

Diabetic retinopathy

OCT:

Optical coherence tomography.

VA:

Visual acuity

VEGF:

Vascular endothelial growth factor

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  1. Surgical Clinical Institute of Ophthalmology (ICQO), C/Virgen de Begoña, 34, 48006, Bilbao, Spain

    Iñigo Corcóstegui Crespo & Elío Díez-Feijóo Varela

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    Mark A. Babizhayev

  2. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Truhlsen Eye Institute, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center; Key Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Developmental Biology of Education Ministry of China, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    David Wan-Cheng Li

  3. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

    Anne Kasus-Jacobi

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pristina, Faculty of Medicine, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia

    Lepša Žorić

  5. Ophthalmology, Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain

    Jorge L. Alió

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Crespo, I.C., Varela, E.DF. (2015). Cataract and Diabetic Retinopathy. In: Babizhayev, M., Li, DC., Kasus-Jacobi, A., Žorić, L., Alió, J. (eds) Studies on the Cornea and Lens. Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1935-2_20

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