Lupus Anticoagulant Positivity in Diabetes With Retinal Vascular Disease

To investigate whether lupus anticoagulant (la) positivity, a frequently associated factor in a variety of thromboembolicevents, might be relevant to the pathogenesis of retinal vascular disease in diabetes mellitus.materials and methods: eighty-five diabetic patients (44 type 1 and 41 type 2) were examined for total blood counts, screening coagulogramand la.results: la was positive in 20.5% of patients with type 1 diabetes and in 33.3% with patients of type 1 diabetes and retinopathy, whereas, lawas positive in only 7.3% of patients with type 2 diabetes and in 6.4% of them with retinopathy.conclusion: these findings suggest that la positivity might be con sidered as an additional risk factor in the pathogenesis of microvasculardisease in type 1 diabetes.