Ultrasonic and biochemical evaluation of human diabetic lens.

Abstract

The diabetic changes stronger influence the thickness of lenses of young people; in the elder age the difference between the thickness of senile and diabetic cataract is not so distinct. Ultrasound attenuation coefficient has a tendency to be higher in patients with senile and type II diabetic cataract. Human lens crystallins of patients with type I diabetes and type II diabetes are damaged at the same degree, the amount of soluble proteins decrease with age and biochemical changes of the lens.