COVID-19

This prospective case-control study included 85 patients with lung involvement related to the COVID-19 virus and a group of 50 healthy controls

AMN, a rare disease, is characterized by dark reddish, wedge-shaped macular lesions

CN6 palsy from the COVID-19 virus is rare, and can occur in infants as young as 7 months.

US District Court Judge Anne Nardacci, presiding in the Northern District of New York, ruled David Kwiat, MD, and Kwiat Eye and Laser Surgery PLLC illegally retaliated against the employee based on protected activity.

The retrospective study was conducted at King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital (KKESH), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the training program by comparing the years 2018 and 2019 before the pandemic to 2020 and 2021 after the pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed medicine forever, and now scientists are forging a new path for healthcare in the future, including in ophthalmology.

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine have conducted a study in a humanized mouse model to show that infections can occur deep inside the eye by penetrating the blood-retinal barrier.

Researchers conducted a retrospective chart review spanning from January 2015 to January 2021 to compare the incidence rates of infectious keratitis before and during the pandemic among PRK patients.

A recent study found that despite worldwide reports of ocular inflammatory events being reported after patients received COVID-19 vaccinations, a low amount has been reported in the UK.

Student confidence in dealing with ophthalmic conditions is down, deterring them from considering ophthalmology as a career.

Korean researchers reported Ptosis was associated with COVID-19 vaccination, while Guillain-Barré syndrome/Miller Fisher syndrome was associated with the COVID-19 infection.

The 6-month-old boy’s dark brown eyes turned deep blue after he was treated for COVID with favipiravir.

The study from New Zealand was conducted on an otherwise healthy 28-year-old woman.

While these complications are rare, they require prompt diagnosis and management to prevent serious visual morbidity.

A large cohort study found that there is no association between the first mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations and acute RVO.

Disruption affected ophthalmology, altering physicians’ education, careers.

The study aims to understand how SARS-CoV-2 affects the eyes and whether it could serve as a virus infection route.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater comfort with robotic telepresence in eye screenings.

DME showed small significant improvement in study cohort.

The survey, from The Larry A. Greene Center and the Primary Care Collaborative, found that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse impact on the well-being of physicians.

Researchers found that the rate of visual decline increased significantly in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) during the COVID-19 lockdown who were followed over time.

A study detailed at the 22nd EURETINA Congress in Hamburg, Germany, documented a spectrum of manifestations following COVID-19 infections in an otherwise immunocompetent patient presenting at a tertiary care center.

Researchers have found that social media use among physicians jumped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the role it plays in networking, mentorship and support among ophthalmologists remains unknown.

The debate continues about the protective effect of eyeglasses against contracting the COVID-19 virus. Researchers from Denmark reported that their results were inconclusive regarding whether wearing eyeglasses is linked with a decreased risk of COVID-19 infections.

Symptoms in the eye may not be substantial in patients with COVID-19.

For health care workers, the pandemic has led to increased burnout, concerns about workplace safety, and staffing shortages that threaten not only patient care but also the entire provider ecosystem.

During a presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology’s 2022 annual meeting in Denver, Yuichi Hori, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that taping the top border of a surgical mask to a clinicians’ skin reduces the potential for ocular surface damage resulting from expirations of air reaching the ocular surface during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study, by investigators from the Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, supported the use of at-home tests during teleophthalmology care, an important point considering the significant drop in in-person VA evaluations during the pandemic.