Title: Correlation of Central Corneal Thickness with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Authors: Prof Dr Prasanta Kumar Nanda, Dr Antarlin Ghosal
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i11.50
Abstract
Introduction
- Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common causes of systemic as well as ocular morbidity in older age group.
- Glaucoma is also another important ocular disease mainly affecting older age group.
- To screen any diabetic patient for glaucoma, CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS (CCT) is an important factor to be taken into account as it can directly affect the disease progression as well as it can separately alter the IOP value.
- Diabetes Mellitus can affect the corneal endothelium by altering the function of Na-K ATPase pump activity, thus causing alteration of corneal morphology and can cause increase in central corneal thickness (CCT) also.
References
- Ozdamar Y et al, 2010- CCT of diabetics are more as compared to normal population.
- Sorokhaibam R et al, 2015- reported increase in CCT in diabetics
- N Mcnamara et al- stated that CCT changes are due to hyperglycemic effect on cornea which inhibits the endothelial pump.
- Sumita Sethy et al, july 2017- reported that diabetics have significant increase in CCT as compared to normal individuals.