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Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The world is currently challenged to handle this pandemic. The common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath...
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Korean Academy of Family Medicine
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8648486/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32475104 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.20.0090 |
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author | Ying, Ng Ying Idris, Nur Suhaila Muhamad, Rosediani Ahmad, Imran |
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description | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The world is currently challenged to handle this pandemic. The common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. There are few reports on the association of SARS-CoV-2 with ocular abnormalities including conjunctivitis. We report a case of a 54-year-old woman who presented solely with conjunctivitis subsequently diagnosed with COVID-19. A lack of full history of her travel abroad was another issue leading to a delay in evaluating her COVID-19 status that increased the infection risk to her managing team. Thus, primary care practitioners should be suspicious of this atypical feature of COVID-19, thus enabling us to identify such patients at entry points. Maintaining safety measures while managing patients is also crucial. |
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spelling | pubmed-86484862021-12-15 Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis Ying, Ng Ying Idris, Nur Suhaila Muhamad, Rosediani Ahmad, Imran Korean J Fam Med Case Report Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The world is currently challenged to handle this pandemic. The common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, cough, fatigue, and shortness of breath. There are few reports on the association of SARS-CoV-2 with ocular abnormalities including conjunctivitis. We report a case of a 54-year-old woman who presented solely with conjunctivitis subsequently diagnosed with COVID-19. A lack of full history of her travel abroad was another issue leading to a delay in evaluating her COVID-19 status that increased the infection risk to her managing team. Thus, primary care practitioners should be suspicious of this atypical feature of COVID-19, thus enabling us to identify such patients at entry points. Maintaining safety measures while managing patients is also crucial. Korean Academy of Family Medicine 2021-11 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8648486/ /pubmed/32475104 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.20.0090 Text en Copyright © 2021 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Ying, Ng Ying Idris, Nur Suhaila Muhamad, Rosediani Ahmad, Imran Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title | Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title_full | Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title_fullStr | Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title_full_unstemmed | Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title_short | Coronavirus Disease 2019 Presenting as Conjunctivitis |
title_sort | coronavirus disease 2019 presenting as conjunctivitis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8648486/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32475104 http://dx.doi.org/10.4082/kjfm.20.0090 |
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