TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tangpagasit, Wimolwan
AU  - Luangpitakchumpol, Sasivarin
AU  - Panittaveekul, Kritrath
PY  - 2022/08/01
Y2  - 2026/03/01
TI  - Ocular Symptoms Assessment of COVID-19:  A Cross-Sectional Study
JF  - Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine
JA  - AMJAM
VL  - 22
IS  - -
SE  - Abstracts
DO  - 
UR  - https://asianmedjam.com/index.php/amjam/article/view/1295
SP  - S96
AB  - &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Introduction:&lt;/strong&gt; The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging lower respiratory tract infectious disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Objectives:&lt;/strong&gt; This research was purposed to assess the clinical manifestations of COVID-19 infection and the characteristics of ocular involvement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods:&lt;/strong&gt; This study is a cross-sectional quantitative study, an online questionnaire was performed on RT-PCR positive COVID-19 patients in Thailand.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results:&lt;/strong&gt; A total of 168 COVID-19 patients (32.3% male and 67.7% female) were enrolled in the study and completed an online questionnaire. The mean age of the patients was 39.14 ±12.7 years (ranging from 18 to 72 years). At the time of the study, only 40 patients (21.2%) were unvaccinated. Most of them presented with cough (n = 115, 67.6%), and acute viral syndrome symptoms (n = 115, 67.6%). The prevalence of COVID ocular involvement was estimated to be 20.6%. The most significant ocular manifestations, including eye discharge (n = 37, 19.6%), irritation (n = 31, 16.4%), epiphora (n = 30, 15.9%), and eye redness (n = 28, 14.8%), occurred within a week before COVID was detected. There was no correlation between vaccination and severe ocular symptoms (&lt;em&gt;P&lt;/em&gt; = .305).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions:&lt;/strong&gt; Although most COVID patients had systemic symptoms, ocular involvement presented in a minority and did not significantly affect ocular vision, which was disassociated from vaccination.&lt;/p&gt;
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