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• TITLE: Nailfold Capillaroscopy Findings in Diabetic Patients (A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study)

  AUTHORS: Alireza Rajaei, Pooneh Dehghan, Zahra Farahani

  KEYWORDS: Diabetes, Nail Fold Capillaroscopy, Normal Pattern, Scleroderma PatternDiabetes, Nail Fold Capillaroscopy, Normal Pattern, Scleroderma Pattern

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Pathology, Vol.5 No.2, April 24, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Background: Microcirculation is affected in diabetes mellitus and Microvascular abnormalities cause persistent diabetic complications. The aim of this study was nailfold capillaroscopic assessment to describe the pathological changes (morphological and structural) in capillary of a large series of patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a Nailfold Capillaroscopy Center (Tehran-Iran) between 2011 and 2014. The study included 235 types 1, 2 diabetic patients. All patients underwent 10 nailfolds capillaroscopy examinations. Microvascular architecture, disturbances capillary distribution, capillary morphology, capillary density, efferent/afferent limb ratio, subpapillary venular plexus, and morphological abnormalities were evaluated. Conclusions were stated as normalor scleroderma pattern. Results of patients’ capillaroscopic images were recorded and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. P value