MONTEREY, Calif. — A study carried out across seven centers in the U.S. found that ocular inflammation might occur in a minority of subjects after COVID-19 vaccination.
“The utility of the COVID-19 vaccination is indisputable; however, rarely, inflammation has been at least temporally associated with the COVID-19 vaccination,” Sruthi Arepalli, MD, and co-authors wrote in a poster presented at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
A retrospective chart review was conducted in a cohort of 321 subjects. Inflammation following COVID-19 vaccination occurred in 37 subjects;