Novel coronavirus pneumonia combined with viral conjunctivitis: three cases report
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-0160.2020.0006
- VernacularTitle: 新型冠状病毒肺炎合并结膜炎三例
- Author:
Ya YE
1
;
Yanping SONG
1
;
Ming YAN
1
;
Cheng HU
1
;
Xiao CHEN
1
;
Juan YU
1
;
Xingfeng REN
2
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Center People’s Liberation Army, Central Theater General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Wuhan 430070, China
2. Department of Nephrology, Central Theater General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Wuhan 430070, China
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Coronavirus;
Infection;
Novel coronavirus pneumonia;
Conjunctivitis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Experimental Ophthalmology
2020;38(0):E006-E006
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Since January 2020, as ophthalmologists working at the center of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) outbreak in Wuhan, China, we found 3 cases in 30 NCP patients with binocular conjunctivitis. Of them, one case visited for conjunctivitis as a first symptom and then diagnosed as NCP, and two cases visited for binocular conjunctivitis during the NCP onset. In 3 patients, conjunctivitis was manifested as signs of viral conjunctivitis from mild to moderate. Their symptoms of two patients disappeared after treatment with antiviral eyedrops for 7 to 10 days and another patient died of NCP. Interestingly,although we detected positive viral nucleic acid in the conjunctiva sacs of 2 of other 27 NCP patients by using swabs and RT-PCR technology, no conjunctivitis occurred in these two patients.
