应当重视糖尿病视网膜神经损伤及保护的研究

Emphasizes the research of diabetic retinal neurons lesions and retinal neuroprotection

糖尿病视网膜病变包括视网膜微血管病变和视网膜神经病变。临床上对前者的研究较多，包括视网膜微血管损伤及其并发症的诊断和治疗；而对后者则重视不够，文献报道也较少。近几年的研究结果显示，糖尿病患者视网膜神经元和胶质细胞的功能损害常较微血管改变更早，加强对糖尿病视网膜神经损伤和视网膜神经保护的研究将有利于正确认识其疾病的本质，对预防和逆转早期糖尿病视网膜神经病变有十分重要的意义。

Diabetic retinopathy includes retinal microangiopathy and retinal neuronopathy. Most of the clinical research has been primarily focused on the former. The retinal microvascular lesions and its complications has standardized in diagnosis and treatment. However, the emphasis on the latter has not been attached to the importance in clinic, and it has fewer studies on it. In recent years, studies have shown that the functional lesion of the retinal neurons and glial cells often can be detected earlier than microangiopathy in diabetic patients. Therefore, emphasis on the research of the diabetic retinal neurons lesions and retinal neuroprotection is beneficial to understand the essence of diabetic retinopathy rightly, and has great practial significance in preventing and reversing diabetic retinal neuronopathy in the early stage.