COVID-19: Special Precautions in Ophthalmic Practice and FAQs on Personal Protection and Mask Selection.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus-2, was first reported in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 and as of April 17, 2020, 210 countries are affected with >2,000,000 infected and 140,000 deaths. The estimated case fatality rate is around 6.

Isoliquiritigenin from licorice root suppressed neovascularisation in experimental ocular angiogenesis models.

Aim: To explore the antiangiogenic property of isoliquiritigenin (ISL) on in vivo and in vitro models.

Design: Laboratory investigation.

Methods: The effect of ISL on angiogenesis development was investigated using ex ovo chick chorioallantoic membrane model.