Manifestações oftalmológicas incapacitantes relacionadas à Covid-19: uma revisão narrativa

Abstract

Since the appearance of COVID-19, there has been a high rate of dissemination on the planet, thus forcing a rapid mobilization and adaptation of health units to receive these patients and a reorganization of systems and study priorities in order to enable professionals who would act in the front line in the fight against the virus. In addition to the objective of eliminating the virus, professionals and patients deal with the possible sequelae, which exist, but wander into the unknown, since this disease does not have a defined typical picture, but it is known that they are proportional to the severity of the severity of the infection. One of the aspects of the study is related to ophthalmological manifestations, which can result in total disabling diseases (when the disability makes it impossible to carry out work activities) or partial (When work activities are limited)permanently or temporarily. Despite the large number of published articles, studies and research dedicated to SARS-CoV-2 (virus nomenclature), the path to concrete answers is still long. In order to illuminate and clarify some of these implications, this work will carry out a literature review relating COVID-19 to ophthalmological manifestations.Within the spectrum of ophthalmological manifestations related to COVID-19 it was found that conjunctivitis is the most common manifestation. In the same aspect, it was evidenced that severe and disabling manifestations, with potential for evolution to permanent sequelae, are also part of the spectrum of ophthalmologic manifestations of COVID-19.