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KMID : 1200020180420040255
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Diabetes & Metabolism Journal
2018 Volume.42 No. 4 p.255 ~ p.269
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Diagnosing Diabetic Neuropathy: Something Old, Something New
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Petropoulos Ioannis N.
Ponirakis Georgios
Khan Adnan
Almuhannadi Hamad
Gad Hoda
Malik Rayaz A.
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Abstract
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There are potentially many ways of assessing diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). However, they do not fulfill U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirements in relation to their capacity to assess therapeutic benefit in clinical trials of DPN. Over the past several decades symptoms and signs, quantitative sensory and electrodiagnostic testing have been strongly endorsed, but have consistently failed as surrogate end points in clinical trials. Therefore, there is an unmet need for reliable biomarkers to capture the onset and progression and to facilitate drug discovery in DPN. Corneal confocal microscopy (CCM) is a non-invasive ophthalmic imaging modality for in vivo evaluation of sensory C-fibers. An increasing body of evidence from multiple centers worldwide suggests that CCM fulfills the FDA criteria as a surrogate endpoint of DPN.
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KEYWORD
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Complications, Diabetic neuropathies, Diagnosis
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