Corneal Confocal Microscopy Detects Neuropathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes without Retinopathy or Microalbuminuria

Ioannis N. Petropoulos; Patrick Green; Agnes W. S. Chan; Uazman Alam; Hassan Fadavi; Andrew Marshall; Omar Asghar; Nathan Efron; Mitra Tavakoli; Rayaz A. Malik

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123517

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Corneal Confocal Microscopy Detects Neuropathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes without Retinopathy or Microalbuminuria

Ioannis N. Petropoulos ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Patrick Green

¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Weill Cornell Medical College Qatar, Division of Research, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar
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Patrick Green ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Patrick Green

¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Agnes W. S. Chan,

Affiliation Queen Mary's University, Bart's and London National Health System Trust, London, United Kingdom
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Uazman Alam,

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Hassan Fadavi,

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Andrew Marshall,

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Omar Asghar,

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Nathan Efron,

Affiliation Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Optometry and Vision Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Mitra Tavakoli,

Affiliation Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Rayaz A. Malik

* E-mail: ram2045@qatar-med.cornell.edu

Affiliations Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes, Institute of Human Development, University of Manchester and Central Manchester National Health System Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Weill Cornell Medical College Qatar, Division of Research, Qatar Foundation, Education City, Doha, Qatar
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Corneal Confocal Microscopy Detects Neuropathy in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes without Retinopathy or Microalbuminuria

Ioannis N. Petropoulos,
Patrick Green,
Agnes W. S. Chan,
Uazman Alam,
Hassan Fadavi,
Andrew Marshall,
Omar Asghar,
Nathan Efron,
Mitra Tavakoli,
Rayaz A. Malik

Published: April 8, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123517

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