| Literature DB >> 35326072 |
Alaa E Fayed1, Ismail I Hamza2, Sherif N Embabi3.
Abstract
We present two ICU-hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) presenting with endogenous endophthalmitis in one eye and variable manifestations of chorioretinitis in the fellow eye. Two diabetic patients (57 and 62 years old) showed anterior uveitis and yellowish-white subretinal infiltrations. The fellow eye of one patient showed patches of choroiditis, while the other showed full retinal thickness infiltrations. A workup yielded high serum titers of galactomannan, diagnostic of aspergillosis. The widespread use of high doses of corticosteroids in the management of COVID-19 may predispose to various secondary fungal opportunistic infections and may manifest in different forms of chorioretinal infiltration.Entities:
Keywords: Aspergillosis; COVID-19; endophthalmitis; fungal; galactomannan; uveitis
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Year: 2022 PMID: 35326072 PMCID: PMC9240524 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2718_21
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Ophthalmol ISSN: 0301-4738 Impact factor: 2.969