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Ocular Rigidity and Diabetes

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Within the last decades, diabetes mellitus has emerged as a major cause of visual disability and blindness in both developed and developing countries. High glucose concentrations lead, via several biochemical pathways, to increased production of free radical intermediates that are known to affect different physical properties of human tissues. Based on the aforementioned mechanisms, a possible correlation between ocular biomechanics and diabetic retinopathy has been suggested. Within this chapter, the pathophysiological mechanisms that may support this relationship are being covered, while a literature review with regard to ocular rigidity measurements in diabetes is being provided.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Athanassios Giarmoukakis & Theonitsa Panagiotoglou

  2. University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Athanassios Giarmoukakis

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Ioannis Pallikaris

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris

  3. 2nd Ophthalmology Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anna I. Dastiridou

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Giarmoukakis, A., Panagiotoglou, T. (2021). Ocular Rigidity and Diabetes. In: Pallikaris, I., Tsilimbaris, M.K., Dastiridou, A.I. (eds) Ocular Rigidity, Biomechanics and Hydrodynamics of the Eye. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64422-2_20

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