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Ocular manifestations of COVID-19: a literature review.

Bruna Rafaella Santos TorresCarlos Eduardo Ximenes da CunhaLaís Rytholz CastroLara Medeiros Pirauá de BritoCaio Victor Oliveira FerreiraMarina Viegas Moura Rezende Ribeiro
Published in: Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) (2020)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the highly pathogenic SARS-Cov-2 virus, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. Its main clinical manifestations are related to airway involvement; however, there is extrapulmonary impairment in some cases. Given this context, this literature review aims to identify the ophthalmological conditions caused by infection with the novel coronavirus. Although ocular findings do not include the standard clinical presentation of the disease, there are reports of some ophthalmological changes in COVID-19 patients, and conjunctivitis is the most common among these.
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