Ocular inflammatory events following COVID-19 vaccination : a multinational case series

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BACKGROUND: Inflammatory adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination are being reported amidst the growing concerns regarding vaccine's immunogenicity and safety, especially in patients with pre-existing inflammatory conditions.

METHODS: Multinational case series of patients diagnosed with an ocular inflammatory event within 14 days following COVID-19 vaccination collected from 40 centres over a 3 month period in 2021.

RESULTS: Seventy patients presented with ocular inflammatory events within 14 days following COVID-19 vaccination. The mean age was 51 years (range, 19-84 years). The most common events were anterior uveitis (n = 41, 58.6%), followed by posterior uveitis (n = 9, 12.9%) and scleritis (n = 7, 10.0%). The mean time to event was 5 days and 6 days (range, 1-14 days) after the first and second dose of vaccine, respectively. Among all patients, 36 (54.1%) had a previous history of ocular inflammatory event. Most patients (n = 48, 68.6%) were managed with topical corticosteroids. Final vision was not affected in 65 (92.9%), whereas 2 (2.9%) and 3 (4.3%) had reduction in visual acuity reduced by ≤3 lines and > 3 lines, respectively. Reported complications included nummular corneal lesions (n = 1, 1.4%), cystoid macular oedema (n = 2, 2.9%) and macular scarring (n = 2, 2.9%).

CONCLUSION: Ocular inflammatory events may occur after COVID-19 vaccination. The findings are based on a temporal association that does not prove causality. Even in the possibility of a causal association, most of the events were mild and had a good visual outcome.

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CommentIn: Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2023 Mar;261(3):897-899. - PMID 36280611

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection - 12(2022), 1 vom: 04. Jan., Seite 4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Testi, Ilaria [VerfasserIn]
Brandão-de-Resende, Camilo [VerfasserIn]
Agrawal, Rupesh [VerfasserIn]
Pavesio, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
COVID-19 Vaccination Ocular Inflammatory Events Study Group [VerfasserIn]
Steeples, Laura [Sonstige Person]
Balasubramaniam, Balini [Sonstige Person]
McCluskey, Peter [Sonstige Person]
Pichi, Francesco [Sonstige Person]
Agarwal, Aniruddha [Sonstige Person]
Herbort, Carl [Sonstige Person]
Cimino, Luca [Sonstige Person]
Iriqat, Salam [Sonstige Person]
Thorne, Jennifer E [Sonstige Person]
Echegaray, Jose [Sonstige Person]
Babu, Kalpana [Sonstige Person]
Bialasiewicz, Alexander Arthur [Sonstige Person]
Goldstein, Debra A [Sonstige Person]
Ghadiri, Nima [Sonstige Person]
Fonollosa Calduch, Alex [Sonstige Person]
Andrade, Gabriel Costa de [Sonstige Person]
Mahendradas, Padmamalini [Sonstige Person]
González-López, Julio J [Sonstige Person]
Carreño, Ester [Sonstige Person]
Hamam, Rola N [Sonstige Person]
Stübiger, Nicole [Sonstige Person]
Bodaghi, Bahram [Sonstige Person]
Chao, Yu-Jang [Sonstige Person]
Takeuchi, Masaru [Sonstige Person]
Tay-Kearney, Mei-Ling [Sonstige Person]
Portero, Alejandro [Sonstige Person]
Keino, Hiroshi [Sonstige Person]
Esteban-Ortega, Mar [Sonstige Person]
Przeździecka-Dołyk, Joanna [Sonstige Person]
Radosavljević, Aleksandra [Sonstige Person]
Paredes, Ian [Sonstige Person]
Agrawal, Rupesh [Sonstige Person]
Ling, Ho Su [Sonstige Person]
Kiong, Wei [Sonstige Person]
Tien, Melissa [Sonstige Person]
Ng, Xin Le [Sonstige Person]
Pavesio, Carlos [Sonstige Person]
Testi, Ilaria [Sonstige Person]
Chee, Soon Phaik [Sonstige Person]
Siak, Jay [Sonstige Person]
Hernanz-Rodriguez, Ines [Sonstige Person]
Menezo, Victor [Sonstige Person]
Tappeiner, Christoph [Sonstige Person]
Cruz, Franz Marie [Sonstige Person]
Addison, Peter [Sonstige Person]
Kuijpers, Robert [Sonstige Person]
Vasconcelos-Santos, Daniel Vitor [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Coronavirus disease
Immunomodulatory
Journal Article
Ocular inflammation
SARS-CoV-2
Uveitis
Vaccination

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 04.09.2023

published: Electronic

CommentIn: Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2023 Mar;261(3):897-899. - PMID 36280611

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12348-021-00275-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33517731X