Al-Namaeh Mashael
Eye Research Center, LLC, 4023 Kennett Pike # 548, Wilmington, DE 19807, USA.
Ther Adv Ophthalmol. 2022 Apr 12;14:25158414221083374. doi: 10.1177/25158414221083374. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.
COVID-19 is a disease caused by a SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, a disease that was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. COVID-19, formerly known as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) respiratory disease, was officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2020. By 25 May 2021, there were 33,579,116 confirmed cases with 599,109 COVID-19 deaths worldwide. The purpose of this review article is to provide an update on what is currently known about COVID-19 ocular symptoms in adults, the elderly, and children in the literature. Finally, this article will review the eye protection precautions that should be implemented in our clinics. To assess the current literature, PubMed was searched from December 2019 to 25 May 2021. Randomized trials, observational studies, case series or case reports, letters of research, and letters to editors were selected for confirmed cases of COVID-19. According to current scientific literature since the outbreak in December 2019, 205 articles have been published. Conjunctivitis, conjunctival hyperemia, and chemosis have been reported in adults with COVID-19. There have been few studies on children and elderly patients, and further research in these age groups is needed. Finally, wearing eye protection when seeing patients on a daily basis during the pandemic is essential.
新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)是由严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)感染引起的疾病,该疾病于2019年12月在中国湖北省武汉市首次被发现。COVID-19,以前称为2019新型冠状病毒(2019-nCoV)呼吸道疾病,于2020年2月被世界卫生组织(WHO)正式命名为COVID-19。截至2021年5月25日,全球共有33579116例确诊病例,599109人死于COVID-19。这篇综述文章的目的是提供关于文献中目前已知的成人、老年人和儿童COVID-19眼部症状的最新信息。最后,本文将综述我们诊所应采取的眼部防护措施。为了评估当前的文献,我们在2019年12月至2021年5月25日期间检索了PubMed。我们选择了随机试验、观察性研究、病例系列或病例报告、研究信函和给编辑的信函,以获取COVID-19确诊病例的相关信息。根据自2019年12月疫情爆发以来的现有科学文献,已发表了205篇文章。在患有COVID-19的成人中,已报告了结膜炎、结膜充血和球结膜水肿。关于儿童和老年患者的研究较少,需要在这些年龄组中进行进一步研究。最后,在疫情期间日常看诊时佩戴眼部防护用品至关重要。