Role of impression cytology during XXXX .

@entity1 @entity353 @entity28 @entity904 @entity941 @entity1129
AIMS: Evaluation of the morphological damage to the ocular surface of @entity1 operated for biliopancreatic diversion for pathological @entity28 and the correlation of impression cytology with @entity904 plasma levels, adaptometry, and other general variables. METHODS: 48 @entity1 (15 males, 33 females, age range 21-73) and 34 normal subjects were examined with @entity941 and rose bengal, a plasma dose of @entity904 , and adaptometry. The results of the various tests were subdivided into three levels (0 = normal, 1 = moderately altered, 2 = seriously altered). The impression cytology and adaptometry results were correlated with @entity904 levels and other @entity1 data (age, nutritional condition, time since operation, percentage @entity353 ). All the examinations were repeated after intramuscular therapy with @entity904 . RESULTS: Corneoconjunctival alterations visible with @entity941 and rose bengal staining were present in 67.7% of cases, impression cytology alterations in 93.7%, adaptometric alterations in 82.2%; @entity904 plasma levels were below normal in 95.8% of cases. After the therapy with @entity904 a significant reduction was found for every examination. The correlation between impression cytology and adaptometry and @entity904 plasma levels and between corneoconjunctival alterations and @entity904 plasma levels was significant. There was no significant correlation between impression cytology and nutritional condition, age time since operation, and percentage @entity353 . CONCLUSION: These results show impression cytology is a specific indicator for @entity1129 because it is not influenced by other factors related to the general condition of the @entity1 . Many @entity1 with @entity1129 not demonstrating ocular symptoms of changes visible with @entity941 and rose bengal showed alterations with impression cytology.
