Kawali Ankush, Sanjay Srinivasan, Mahendradas Padmamalini, Shetty Rohit
Department of Uveitis and Ocular Immunology, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India.
Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India.
Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2023 Apr;31(3):671-672. doi: 10.1080/09273948.2022.2039212. Epub 2022 Mar 8.
During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, we have witnessed increase in number of reports of a known uveitic entity being associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Causal relation is yet to be proven for many reports. Perhaps, occurrence of a previously known region-specific endemic disease or closely resembling manifestations of a known disease in a non-endemic region during the COVID-19 pandemic might suggest a causal relationship. Epidemic retinitis (ER) or post fever retinitis is such condition with geographic variation. Occurrence of ER or ER-like manifestations in a non-endemic country during the pandemic should instigate further studies to consider SARS-CoV-2 as a causative organism.
在2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间，我们目睹了已知葡萄膜炎实体与严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2）相关的报告数量增加。许多报告中的因果关系尚未得到证实。也许，在COVID-19大流行期间，先前已知的地区性地方病的出现或在非流行地区出现与已知疾病极为相似的表现，可能暗示存在因果关系。流行性视网膜炎（ER）或发热后视网膜炎就是这样一种存在地域差异的病症。在大流行期间，在一个非流行国家出现ER或类似ER的表现，应促使开展进一步研究，将SARS-CoV-2视为病原体。
