Unveiling endophthalmitis post COVID-19 – A case series

Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic. There has been a resurgence in complications involving various organs in patients recovered from COVID-19, and endophthalmitis is one of them. Endophthalmitis—an inflammation of intraocular...

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Autores principales: Khatwani, Paras R, Goel, Nikita P, Trivedi, Kinjal Y, Aggarwal, Somesh V
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/PMC8597453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34571655
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1616_21
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author Khatwani, Paras R
Goel, Nikita P
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Aggarwal, Somesh V
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description Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic. There has been a resurgence in complications involving various organs in patients recovered from COVID-19, and endophthalmitis is one of them. Endophthalmitis—an inflammation of intraocular tissues leading to loss of vision or even loss of eye—has been a rare occurrence in the past, but has been on the rise in the post-COVID-19 times. Here we report seven such cases.
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spelling pubmed-85974532021-12-07 Unveiling endophthalmitis post COVID-19 – A case series Khatwani, Paras R Goel, Nikita P Trivedi, Kinjal Y Aggarwal, Somesh V Indian J Ophthalmol Expedited Publication, Case Reports Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic. There has been a resurgence in complications involving various organs in patients recovered from COVID-19, and endophthalmitis is one of them. Endophthalmitis—an inflammation of intraocular tissues leading to loss of vision or even loss of eye—has been a rare occurrence in the past, but has been on the rise in the post-COVID-19 times. Here we report seven such cases. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-10 2021-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8597453/ /pubmed/34571655 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1616_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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