Fully understand COVID-19 related eye damage to improve the level of diagnosis and treatment

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The continuous pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the world has had a profound impact on the global medical model.More accumulated new medical data suggest that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2) infection will invade multiple organs of patients, but there is still a lack of sufficient understanding of the characteristics of ocular related lesions and their prognosis.The existing clinical data found that COVID-19-related ocular diseases mainly include ocular surface inflammatory lesions and retinopathy and choroidopathy in the posterior segment.The disease is not only an acute inflammatory reaction process, but also can lead to the pathological process of microvascular thrombosis in the retina and choroid, which may have a long-term impact on the visual prognosis of patients, especially those who were initially diagnosed as ophthalmic manifestations.Accurate diagnosis of COVID-19-related ocular diseases is a challenge for ophthalmologists.Ophthalmologists should have a deep understanding of the pathogenesis and development of SARS CoV-2 infected eyes, make use of the current multimodal ophthalmic imaging examination to reduce misdiagnosis and take timely targeted treatment measures to minimize the risk of disease damage to visual function.We suggest that clinical ophthalmologists pay attention to carry out the pathogenesis research of related diseases and multidisciplinary clinical research to reduce the blindness rate of patients with SARS CoV-2 infection and improve patients’ quality of life.

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