ABSTRACT
UNLABELLED: The authors have suggested to reveal conjunctiva stamp changes in diabetic patients. A set of patients aged between 50 - 80 and having been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus were available for our study, therefore they have been ophthalmologically examined; both Schrimer and BUT tests have been performed. We removed conjunctiva stamps which, after being fixed and Giemsa stained, they were investigated by photonic microscopy. As to compare them we removed conjunctiva stamps from a group of control which was also Schrimer and BUT tested. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Both Schrimer and BUT tests pleaded for lacrimal hyposecretion in most of the diabetic patients; their conjunctiva stamps presented changes at the levels of both epithelial and calyciforme cells. Conjunctiva stamps were significantly changed in the old patients with a long lasted diabetes evolution pleading for the diagnosis of lacrimal hyposecretion syndrome (dry eye syndrome) in those patients.
