Open Access<p>Unfolding COVID-19: Lessons-in-Learning in Ophthalmology</p>
Author(s) -
Ranju Kharel Sitaula,
Anadi Khatri,
M K Janani,
Rajendra Mandage,
Soumen Sadhu,
Madhavan Hn,
Madan Prasad Upadhyay,
Jyotirmay Biswas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical ophthalmology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1177-5483
pISSN - 1177-5467
DOI - 10.2147/opth.s259857
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , ophthalmology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
An observant Chinese doctor Li Wenliang became the first physician to alert the world about COVID-19. Being an ophthalmologist himself, he has put the additional onus on us. The fact that the ocular manifestation could be the first presenting feature of novel coronavirus pneumonia should not be ignored and the possibility of spread of SARS-CoV-2 through the ocular secretions cannot be ruled out. However, with breakthroughs still evolving about this disease, the calls are now louder for closer examination on the pathogenesis of conjunctivitis associated with it. Hence, we conducted a scoping review of all available literature till date to fill in the "potential" gaps in currently available knowledge on ocular manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection in an attempt to establish continuity in the "chain of information" from December 2019 till April 2020. We also summarize a possible hypothesis on much less understood and highly debated topics on regard to the etiopathogenesis of ocular involvement in SARS-CoV-2 based on either presence or absence of ACE2 receptor in the ocular surface.