Pupillary autonomic denervation and diabetes mellitus
- 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Magdeburg University Medical School, Germany
- 2Department of Ophthalmology
- Correspondence to: H Lehnert; hendrik.lehnert{at}medizin.uni-magdeburg.de
Recently, Cahill et at1 published a paper on pupillary autonomic denervation in diabetic patients. In our own recent study we can confirm the presence of a small dark adapted pupil size (DAP) before cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction is detected in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.2 We believe that this …








