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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/42497| Title: | Ophthalmology and diabetes |
| Authors: | Damato, F. J. |
| Keywords: | Ophthalmology Diabetes -- Complications Eye -- Diseases Sugar -- Physiological effect |
| Issue Date: | 1951 |
| Publisher: | British Medical Students' Association. Malta Branch |
| Citation: | Damato, F. J. (1951). Ophthalmology and diabetes. Chest-piece, 1(6), 12-13. |
| Abstract: | Diabetes affects the eyes in two ways. 1. The upset in sugar metabolism causes a general disturbance in the water balance of the body and leads to humoral and osmotic changes in the eye. 2. The long-standing presence of sugar in the blood, the failure of the tissues to use sugar and the eventual appearance of acidosis and ketones in the blood, give rise to toxic, and degenerative changes in all tissues, including the ocular structures. Nutrition is interfered with and the eye is more liable to infection and less resistant to sepsis. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42497 |
| Appears in Collections: | Chest-piece, volume 1, issue 6 |
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