Introduction. According to World Health Organization, nowadays, the amount
of diabetic patients has exceeded 1,000 million people, equaling 3% of the Earth
population. Unsuspected diabetes mellitus is a disease in a latent form without
acute symptomatology.
Purpose. To determine the etiology of retinopathy in the patients applied to the
Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the NAMS of Ukraine.
Material and Methods. Seven patients underwent the treatment at Department
for Inflammatory Eye Diseases in the Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue
Therapy. The patients complained of both distance and near visual loss. All patients
were diagnosed proliferative DRP with neovascularization, hemorrhage, and
exudates. Blood glucose tests were within normal ranges and did not exceed 5.8
mmol/l. In the course of the treatment, visual acuity improved by three lines, at an
average.
Conclusion. As a result of ophthalmic examination, ophthalmic diagnosis, and,
afterwards, endocrinological examination, all patients were diagnosed diabetes
mellitus in a latent form
