4 Topic Commentaries

Post-COVID Eye Syndrome?

Post-COVID Eye Syndrome?

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  Pawan Kumar Singh, PhD

  Ophthalmology (ocular infectious diseases, retina)

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  University of Missouri School of Medicine

  “For those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, we recommend you ask your ophthalmologist to check for signs of pathological changes to the retina,” Singh said. “Even those who were asymptomatic could suffer from damage in the eyes over time because of COVID-19 associated complications.”

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  Petros Moustardas, PhD

  Vision science / ocular immunology research

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  Linköping University

  “Our findings suggest that these people have suffered a severe reaction to COVID-19 manifested in the eyes, with long-term inflammation and an impact on the nerves that control multiple eye functions,”

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  Igor J. Koralnik, MD

  Neurology (neuro-infectious diseases; long COVID)

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  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  “So that means that if there is decreased perfusion, there's less oxygen going to this in the back of the eye. That may explain the blurry vision that some of the patients have, and since we think that the eye is the window. On the brain and other organs because the capillaries are the same, then that may explain some of the problems that those patients have because of this microvascular dysfunction that can cause a symptom without the virus having to infect the bran In and of itself.”

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  Manjot K. Gill, MD

  Ophthalmology (retina; oculomics)

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  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  “We looked at a population of long COVID patients and compared them to age match controls and did in fact find that patients with long CO. Did have decreased blood flow in their retinas.”

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