Ocular manifestations of COVID-19: a literature review
Bruna Rafaella Santos Torres, Carlos Eduardo Ximenes da Cunha, Laís Rytholz Castro, Lara Medeiros Pirauá de Brito, Caio Victor Oliveira Ferreira, Marina Viegas Moura Rezende Ribeiro
Abstract
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.