POSTERIOR SEGMENT OCULAR FINDINGS IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS WITH COVID-19.

Purpose: To describe ophthalmological fundoscopic findings in patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit of the largest third-level referral center for COVID-19 in Mexico City.

Methods: In this cross-sectional single-center study, consecutive patients admitted to the intensive care unit with a diagnosis of COVID-19 underwent fundus examination with an indirect ophthalmoscope. Clinical photographs were taken using a posterior-pole camera.

Optic neuritis following SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The most common neurologic symptoms in COVID-19 are headache, anosmia, and dysgeusia. Optic neuritis is an unusual manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection. We report a case of a patient who initially consulted for vision loss in the absence of respiratory symptoms.