{"id":182031,"date":"2021-02-18T22:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/some-covid-19-patients-left-with-nodules-on-eyeballs-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:14:18","slug":"some-covid-19-patients-left-with-nodules-on-eyeballs-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/some-covid-19-patients-left-with-nodules-on-eyeballs-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"#Some COVID-19 patients left with nodules on eyeballs, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Some COVID-19 patients left with nodules on eyeballs, study finds<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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New evidence released Tuesday documented\u00a0so-called nodules in the eyes of patients battling severe\u00a0COVID-19, with scientists hypothesizing causes like virus-related inflammation and positioning patients face down\u00a0to improve oxygenation.<\/p>\n

A team of French researchers\u00a0published\u00a0<\/a>findings in the Radiology journal, drawing on 129 patients with severe COVID-19 who had brain MRIs across 16 hospitals from March 4 to May 1. Nine patients, or 7 percent, had at least one so-called \u201chyperintense nodule\u201d toward the back of the eye in the \u201cmacular region,\u201d key for clear vision. Nearly all patients in the small subset had nodules in both eyes.<\/p>\n

It is still unclear exactly what causes the nodules, though scientists suggested virus-related inflammation or the prone position (when patients are placed face down for better oxygenation) for an extended period. Seven of the nine patients were in the prone position and researchers therefore hypothesized issues related to \u201cinadequate drainage of the veins of the eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eye abnormalities in a 56-year-old man with severe COVID-19. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The team is following up with patients to check for any vision loss and have since started another study in mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients to see if the issue affects these patients too.<\/p>\n

Six of the patients in the study were obese, two had diabetes and two had hypertension, study authors said. Eight patients underwent intensive care due to their severe bout of COVID-19. Six patients had brain MRIs done because they were slow to wake after sedation was stopped.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe showed that a few patients with severe COVID-19 from the French COVID-19 cohort had one or several nodules of the posterior pole of the globe,\u201d Dr. Augustin Lecler, study lead author and associate professor at the University of Paris and neuroradiologist from the Department of Neuroradiology at the Foundation Adolphe de Rothschild Hospital in Paris, said in a related\u00a0release<\/a>. \u201cThis is the first time these findings have been described using MRI.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study authors suggested screenings may help in managing these potentially serious manifestations affecting the eyes.<\/p>\n

The study had several limitations, like lack of a control group and samples testing for SARS-CoV-2 in the eyes and conjunctiva, or the membrane covering the eye and eyelids. Due to these limitations, the scientists wrote, in part, \u201cit is impossible to assess the direct causality of the virus in our findings.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Some COVID-19 patients left with nodules on eyeballs, study finds” New evidence released Tuesday documented\u00a0so-called nodules in the eyes of patients battling severe\u00a0COVID-19, with scientists hypothesizing causes like virus-related inflammation and positioning patients face down\u00a0to improve oxygenation. A team of French researchers\u00a0published\u00a0findings in the Radiology journal, drawing on 129 patients with severe COVID-19 who had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/eye-covid-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[93894,1545,94060,32232,5047,61514],"class_list":["post-182031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-18-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-eyes","tag-france","tag-health","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}