Greater corneal nerve loss at the inferior whorl is related to the presence of diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy

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• who: Alise Kalteniece from the Study subjects, patients with type , or type , diabetes and , age-matched healthy controls underwent assessment of peripheral neuropathy and corneal confocal microscopy (CCM). Patients were excluded if they had a history of malignancy, neuropathy of non-diabetic cause, current or active diabetic foot ulceration, deficiency of , or folate, chronic renal impairment or liver failure, connective tissue or systemic disease, corneal trauma, systemic disease that involves the cornea and cystic corneal disorders. Before participation informed consent was obtained from each participant. This research adhered to the tenets of Declaration of Helsinki and was . . .
  

   

  

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