✦ LIBER ✦
Case history notes designed as an aid to professional education. Metabolic cataract causing loss of vision in newly diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
✍ Scribed by Chalmers, J ;Herlihy, OH ;Macdonald, M ;Campbell, W
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 825 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1357-8170
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Loss of vision is a worrying symptom for any diabetic patient, particularly in young diabetic subjects with poor control. Once osmotic lens change has been excluded, patients presenting with recent changes in their vision should have careful ophthalmological assessment. In this case, a recently diagnosed insulin‐dependent diabetic patient was found to have bilateral metabolic cataracts. Following their surgical removal satisfactory vision was restored. Metabolic cataracts are unusual but should be kept in mind as a cause of visual loss in young people with diabetes.