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Retinal Vasculitis Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Causation or Coincidence?
Zuohuizi Yi1, Liao Chen2, Hongmei Zheng1
1Eye Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Background:
With the popularity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination, some rare ocular adverse events have gradually been reported. This report shows a rare case of retinal vasculitis following COVID-19 vaccination.
Description:
A 37-year-old male complained of unilateral severe vision loss 13 days after the first dose of an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine. The initial eye examination showed gray-white edema in the macula, and scattered patchy gray-white lesions in the peripheral retina, accompanied by peripheral retinal small vessel occlusion. After glucocorticoid treatment, the gray-white lesions gradually subsided. However, due to the initial severe damage in the fundus, macular and peripheral retinal lesions were significantly atrophied, and the vision recovery was poor.
Conclusion:
The ocular adverse event in this report may be related to the inactivated COVID-19 vaccination, however, it is difficult to rule out the accidental rare adverse events after a large number of vaccinations.
