| Summary: | Corneal endothelium is most posterior layer of cornea. Patients with
diabetes mellitus have higher risks to become persistent stromal oedema after
intraocular surgery than normal patients. It is caused by morphologic and
functional abnormalities of corneal endothelium in patients with diabetes melitus..
The purpose of this study to determine whether there was significant
difference of corneal endothelium cells loss after manual small incision cataract
surgery between patients with diabetes mellitus and patients without diabetes
mellitus. This is cohort study and subjects were patients of senile cataract with
diabetes mellitus and without diabetes mellitus undergoing manual small incision
cataract surgery in Dr. Sardjito General Hospital, who met inclusive and
exclusive criteria.
Subjects of this study consisted of 25 senile cataract patients with diabetes
mellitus and 25 senile cataract patients without diabetes mellitus undergoing
manual small incision cataract from May to August 2013. Characteristics of
subjects consisting of sex, age, cataract grading, are similar between both groups
(p>0.05). Mean duration of surgery of both groups, hve no statistically significant
difference in patients with diabetes mellitus, was 36.56 + 5.49 minutes
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