Influence of some factors on the sutures of the lens.

A clinical study of the lens transparency conditions was made on 118 patients with regard for an applicable treatment, the use of hyperbaric oxygenation and a type of lesion. It showed, that sutures of the lens were wider in patients with uveitis and in diabetic patients as compared with the control-group patients who had no other pathologies. Glaucomatous patients had very narrow sutures. Initial opacifications of the lens were perceived in patients with uveitis and in diabetic patients as stars oriented along sutures beneath the posterior capsule in the area of the nucleus. Following hyperbaric oxygenation and equally the corticosteroid therapy, there was a decrease in the thickness of the sutures, and the degree of transparency of the lenticular nucleus changed as well mainly in the zone bordering on the posterior cortex strata. The study underlines the importance of examination of the condition of the lens sutures in determining the toxic impact produced by different factors on the lens.