Bilateral Aspergillosis endogenous endophthalmitis in post COVID-19 recovered patient; A clinical case report by Zahra Zia, MD in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences
Bilateral Aspergillosis endogenous endophthalmitis in post COVID-19 recovered patient; A clinical case report by Zahra Zia, MD in Journal of Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Ocular manifestations have a thousand faces and yet each ocular presentation has a unique course, treatment and prognosis. We present a rare case of post-COVID-19 bilateral Aspergillosis endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) with aggressive manifestation at first but an appropriate treatment response. A 54-year-old man presented with bilateral decreased vision four weeks after post-COVID-19 hospitalization. Initially, he was diagnosed with noninfectious uveitis and treated with topical and systemic prednisolone for one week. Subsequently, he was treated with systemic voriconazole after a positive vitreous sample polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result for Aspergillus fumigatus. This case demonstrated the effectiveness of systemic antifungal treatment without surgical intervention in post-COVID-19 ...