Hypercytokinemia in COVID-19: Tear cytokine profile in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

B Burgos-Blasco, N Güemes-Villahoz… - Experimental Eye …, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to analyze the concentrations of cytokines in tear of hospitalized
COVID-19 patients compared to healthy controls. Tear samples were obtained from 41 …

[HTML][HTML] Increased proinflammatory cytokines in tears correspond with conjunctival SARS-CoV-2 positivity in symptomatic COVID-19 patients

A Niedźwiedź, M Kawa, E Pius-Sadowska… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Tear fluid cytokine levels may serve as biomarkers of innate immune system response
against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Therefore, our aim was to analyze panel of selected …

[HTML][HTML] Ocular surface manifestation of COVID-19 and tear film analysis

A Meduri, GW Oliverio, G Mancuso, A Giuffrida… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
To evaluate the ocular manifestation in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) and to search for the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptomic analysis revealed increased expression of genes involved in keratinization in the tears of COVID-19 patients

L Mastropasqua, L Toto, L Chiricosta, F Diomede… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recent studies have focused their attention on conjunctivitis as one of the symptoms of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Therefore, tear samples were taken from COVID-19 …

Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 in tears of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19

R Arora, R Goel, S Kumar, M Chhabra, S Saxena… - Ophthalmology, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in tears of patients with moderate
to severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Design Cross-sectional study. Participants …

[HTML][HTML] In-depth investigation of conjunctival swabs and tear fluid of symptomatic COVID-19 patients, an observational cohort study

M Gijs, JMJ Veugen, PFG Wolffs… - … Vision Science & …, 2021 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose: The putative presence of SARS-CoV-2 in ocular specimen puts healthcare workers
at risk. We thoroughly examined conjunctival swabs and tear fluid in a large cohort of COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 in the tears of patients with Coronavirus disease 2019

S Karimi, A Arabi, T Shahraki, S Safi - Eye, 2020 - nature.com
Objectives Since there are few reports on the ocular involvement of coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) patients, this study aimed to assess the presence of severe acute …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon the ophthalmological clinical practice

AM Dascalu, MS Tudosie, GC Smarandache, D Serban - Rom. J. Leg. Med, 2020 - rjlm.ro
Introduction. With more than 1,000,000 infections around the world, SARS-Cov 2 is
responsible for the most severe healthcare crisis in the last 100 years. Aim. The paper …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of COVID-19 in tears of ICU-admitted patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection

SH Daryabari, A Asadollah, FA Moghadam… - International …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Upon the outbreak of 2019, novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic confirmed the
cases surpassed 20 million. Despite a few reports identified the association of severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctiva and tears and ocular symptoms of patients with COVID-19

T Rodríguez-Ares, D Lamas-Francis, M Treviño… - Vision, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in conjunctival secretions and tears
and evaluates ocular symptoms in a group of patients with COVID-19. We included 56 …