Vision changes in patients with long COVID may reflect severe disease phenotype

SEATTLE – Persistent vision changes were found to be a symptom of severe forms of long COVID and were associated with worse clinical manifestations, according to a poster presentation.
“There have been a lot of reports of ocular symptoms in long COVID, but one remaining question that has yet to be asked is, ‘How did those with long COVID and ocular symptoms differ from those who had long COVID but did not have any ocular symptoms?’” Shayaan Kaleem, MD, told Healio at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Kaleem and colleagues conducted a study