DIABETIC CATARACT

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Abstract
Cataract is a well recognized complication of severe diabetes mellitus in young persons but is considered to be comparatively rare. It is believed by some to occur only in those with associated vascular disease. In its typical form diabetic cataract is described as developing in both eyes with great rapidity; that is, within a few hours or days. There is no evidence of a characteristic morphology; different observers describe subcapsular vacuoles, water slits, and various types of grayish white and iridescent subcapsular and cortical opacities; for example, reticulate, asbestos-like, punctate and flocculent. Also a saucer-like gray and opalescent posterior subcapsular opacity is described. This study of the crystalline lenses in young diabetic subjects was undertaken in order to determine the incidence and morphology of cataracts in such patients. The report is founded on repeated detailed examinations, with the slit lamp microscope, of the lenses in 126 diabetic patients up to

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