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Vascular and circulatory diseases of the retina associated with spent Covid-19- clinical cases 

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Volume 10, Issue 1

Case Report / Published: July 2022

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.57045/jemis/1010722.pp56-60

Т. Kirova, A. Kalaydzhiev, L. Voynov

Clinic of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Oral Surgery, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 has affected more than 130 million people since the outbreak. During the pandemic, the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus (SARS-CoV-2) was found to cause endothelial dysfunction of small blood vessels and can lead to late ocular complications such as acute occlusion of the central retinal artery and its branches, occlusion of the venous vessels of the retina, central serous retinopathy, papillophlebitis, anterior ischemic opticopathy, uveitis and neuroretinitis.

The aim of the present study was to raise awareness of the risk of developing acute retinal vascular disease associated with COVID-19. 

 

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Keywords:

COVID-19, endothelial dysfunction, vascular diseases,thrombosis

How to cite this article:

Kirova T, Kalaydzhiev A, Voynov L.Vascular and circulatory diseases of the retina associated with spent Covid-19- clinical cases. Journal of Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery (Bulgaria), 2022; 10(1):56-60

Corresponding author:

Dr. Tanislava Kirova

Clinic of Ophtalmology

Military Medical Academy of Sofia

Address: 3, Sv. Georgi Sofiyski blvd, 1606, Sofia

E-mail: tanislava.kirova @ gmail.com