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Herpetic anterior uveitis following Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine: two case reports
José Manuel Ortiz-Egea1, Cristina Gómez Sánchez2, Andrés López-Jiménez3
1Ophthalmology Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain. joemortiz@hotmail.com.
Purpose:
To describe two cases of herpetic anterior uveitis after inoculation of the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine.
Methods:
Case 1: a healthy 92-year-old Caucasian woman developed symptomatic unilateral anterior uveitis for 3 days after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination (Pfizer Inc.). The episode fully resolved with topical and oral antiviral treatment. Case 2: a previously healthy 85-year-old Caucasian woman with left hemicranial signs of herpes zoster infection, associated with herpetic keratouveitis for 3 days after Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination. Treatment with topical antibiotics and both oral and topical antiherpetic medication was administered, and she recovered successfully in 5 weeks.
Conclusion:
Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of eye inflammation in the form of herpetic reactivation after coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination.
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