KROK 1 2013 – Question 196 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A female patient complains of vision impairment. On examination she was found to have obesity, fasting hyperglycemia. What complication of diabetes can cause vision impairment?
- A. Neuropathy
- B. Glomerulopathy
- C. Atherosclerosis
- D. Macroangiopathy
- E. Microangiopathy
Hint
Ask which structure in the eye is damaged by diabetes and what kind of vessel supplies it, then match the type of diabetic vascular lesion.
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