HLA-DR antigen association with proliferative diabetic retinopathy

✍ Scribed by D. Middleton; P. B. Johnston; E. L. Gillespie

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-5701
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00136459

✦ Synopsis

No significant differences could be found in the HLA-DR antigen frequency of two groups of patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). One group consisted of 49 patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy and the other group of 31 patients with no ophthalmoscopic evidence of diabetic retinopathy.