[Laser-correlation spectroscopy of the lacrimal fluid in the evaluation of the semiotic nature of postoperative inflammatory reaction and the degree of its severity in patients with diabetes mellitus after intraocular lens implantation].

Lavages of the lacrimal fluid were examined, before operation and immediately after operation, in 47 patients with diabetes mellitus and with pseudophakia in order to define the possibilities of the method of laser-correlation spectroscopy (LCS) in evaluating the semiotic nature and a severity degree of postoperative inflammation. It was found that, when the subjective symptomatology of inflammation in the LCS spectrums intensified, there was a higher contribution to the light dissemination of particles with a hydrodynamic diameter of 600 nm and more (i.e. of heavy lipoprotein complexes and of immune complexes), which were determined after a computer-based processing as a condition of primary intoxication and of immune shifts. The LCS results objectively confirmed that the degree of inflammatory changes during the early postoperative period was reliably higher in patients with a level of glycolyzed hemoglobin exceeding 9% versus patients with the above parameter being below 9%.