Copyright
©The Author(s) 2016. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
World J Diabetes. Sep 15, 2016; 7(17): 406-411
Published online Sep 15, 2016. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v7.i17.406
Published online Sep 15, 2016. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v7.i17.406
In vivo corneal confocal microscopy in diabetes: Where we are and where we can get
Ernesto Maddaloni, Unit of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University Campus Bio-Medico, 00128 Rome, Italy
Francesco Sabatino, Department of Ophthalmology, University Campus Bio-Medico, 00128 Rome, Italy
Author contributions: Maddaloni E and Sabatino F reviewed the literature and wrote the paper.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The Authors declare no conflict of interest related to this manuscript.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Ernesto Maddaloni, MD, Unit of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University Campus Bio-Medico, Via Alvaro del Portillo 21, 00128 Rome, Italy. e.maddaloni@unicampus.it
Telephone: +39-06-22541697 Fax: +39-06-22541698
Received: March 5, 2016
Peer-review started: March 7, 2016
First decision: June 16, 2016
Revised: June 24, 2016
Accepted: July 14, 2016
Article in press: July 18, 2016
Published online: September 15, 2016
Processing time: 188 Days and 23.8 Hours
Peer-review started: March 7, 2016
First decision: June 16, 2016
Revised: June 24, 2016
Accepted: July 14, 2016
Article in press: July 18, 2016
Published online: September 15, 2016
Processing time: 188 Days and 23.8 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Diabetic neuropathies are common, invalidating and often undiagnosed complications affecting a huge number of subjects with diabetes. In vivo corneal confocal microscopy is a novel, reproducible, easy and noninvasive technique that has been widely studied as a useful tool for the diagnosis of neuropathy. Promising data suggest its implementation in clinical and research practice will help to face the current health emergency related to nerve damages in diabetes.