In-Vivo Surgical Approach of Subretinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report.

Purpose: To report the clinical and imaging findings of a patient with right eye progressive vision loss, in whom ocular neurocysticercosis was diagnosed. The patient underwent vitreoretinal surgery with previous antihelmintic treatment, resulting in a successful extraction of the subretinal cyst.

Methods: A patient with subretinal neurocysticercosis underwent a combination of ophthalmic examination, fundus photography, ocular ultrasound, brain MRI, and surgery.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection in Pregnancy. A Non-systematic Review of Clinical Presentation, Potential Effects of Physiological Adaptations in Pregnancy, and Placental Vascular Alterations.

In December 2019, the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly spread to become a pandemic. To date, increasing evidence has described the potential negative impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on pregnant women. Although the pathophysiology of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is not entirely understood, there is emerging evidence that it causes a severe systemic inflammatory response associated with vascular alterations that could be of special interest considering some physiological changes in pregnancy.