Neuro-ophthalmic presentation of COVID-19 disease: A case report

COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, which has affected various organ systems as well. Here we report a neuro-ophthalmic presentation of pituitary apoplexy under the setting of COVID-19 infection in a middle-aged man who presented to ophthalmic emergency with sudden bilateral loss of vision along with a...

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Autores principales: Katti, Venkatram, Ramamurthy, Lakshmi B, Kanakpur, Savitha, Shet, Satish D, Dhoot, Manisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Expedited Publication, Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33727476
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3321_20
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author Katti, Venkatram
Ramamurthy, Lakshmi B
Kanakpur, Savitha
Shet, Satish D
Dhoot, Manisha
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description COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, which has affected various organ systems as well. Here we report a neuro-ophthalmic presentation of pituitary apoplexy under the setting of COVID-19 infection in a middle-aged man who presented to ophthalmic emergency with sudden bilateral loss of vision along with a history of fever past 10 days. There was sluggishly reacting pupils and RT-PCR for COVID was positive. Imaging pointed the diagnosis as pituitary macroadenoma with apopexy. In view of pandemic situation, patient was given symptomatic treatment as per the protocols and stabilized. Vision also showed improvement to some extent and the patient is awaiting neurosurgery
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spelling pubmed-80129612021-04-01 Neuro-ophthalmic presentation of COVID-19 disease: A case report Katti, Venkatram Ramamurthy, Lakshmi B Kanakpur, Savitha Shet, Satish D Dhoot, Manisha Indian J Ophthalmol Expedited Publication, Case Reports COVID-19 is a respiratory virus, which has affected various organ systems as well. Here we report a neuro-ophthalmic presentation of pituitary apoplexy under the setting of COVID-19 infection in a middle-aged man who presented to ophthalmic emergency with sudden bilateral loss of vision along with a history of fever past 10 days. There was sluggishly reacting pupils and RT-PCR for COVID was positive. Imaging pointed the diagnosis as pituitary macroadenoma with apopexy. In view of pandemic situation, patient was given symptomatic treatment as per the protocols and stabilized. Vision also showed improvement to some extent and the patient is awaiting neurosurgery Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-04 2021-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8012961/ /pubmed/33727476 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3321_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Neuro-ophthalmic presentation of COVID-19 disease: A case report
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title_sort neuro-ophthalmic presentation of covid-19 disease: a case report
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