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Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report
A 65-year-old male patient presented to the ED complaining of blurred vision in the left eye for the last three days. The patient had just recovered from COVID-19 infection and had a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test two days after the initiation of symptoms. His family and medical histo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10219685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252587 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38172 |
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author | Kapsis, Petros Agapitou, Chrysa Dimitriou, Eleni Theodossiadis, Panagiotis Chatziralli, Irini |
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description | A 65-year-old male patient presented to the ED complaining of blurred vision in the left eye for the last three days. The patient had just recovered from COVID-19 infection and had a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test two days after the initiation of symptoms. His family and medical history were clear. Ophthalmological examination and imaging revealed branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) with macular edema in the left eye, while the right eye was normal. The visual acuity was 6/6 in the right eye and 6/36 in the left eye. Laboratory tests, as well as the full cardiovascular and thrombophilia evaluation, were normal. Since the patient did not have known risk factors for BRVO, we hypothesize that it was related to COVID-19 infection. However, the causality between the two entities remains under investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-102196852023-05-27 Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report Kapsis, Petros Agapitou, Chrysa Dimitriou, Eleni Theodossiadis, Panagiotis Chatziralli, Irini Cureus Ophthalmology A 65-year-old male patient presented to the ED complaining of blurred vision in the left eye for the last three days. The patient had just recovered from COVID-19 infection and had a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test two days after the initiation of symptoms. His family and medical history were clear. Ophthalmological examination and imaging revealed branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) with macular edema in the left eye, while the right eye was normal. The visual acuity was 6/6 in the right eye and 6/36 in the left eye. Laboratory tests, as well as the full cardiovascular and thrombophilia evaluation, were normal. Since the patient did not have known risk factors for BRVO, we hypothesize that it was related to COVID-19 infection. However, the causality between the two entities remains under investigation. Cureus 2023-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10219685/ /pubmed/37252587 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38172 Text en Copyright © 2023, Kapsis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Ophthalmology Kapsis, Petros Agapitou, Chrysa Dimitriou, Eleni Theodossiadis, Panagiotis Chatziralli, Irini Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title | Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title_full | Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title_short | Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion After COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report |
title_sort | branch retinal vein occlusion after covid-19 infection: a case report |
topic | Ophthalmology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10219685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37252587 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38172 |
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