PREVALENCE OF SARS-CoV-2 RNA AND ANTIBODY DETECTION, AND VACCINATION STATUS IN PATIENTS WITH OCULAR VASCULAR OCCLUSION.

Purpose: To analyze the annual prevalence of ocular vascular occlusion in relation to COVID-19 infection and vaccination status in a prospective study.

Methods: All patients were examined for an active severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection by RNA detection and for a previous infection by virus-specific antibody detection, and their vaccination status was documented. Data from pandemic year 2020 and previous years, before COVID-19 (2019, 2018, 2017), were retrospectively analyzed.

Retinal and Choroidal Ultra-Widefield OCT - Technology, Insights, and Clinical Relevance.

As one of the most state-of-the-art procedures for retinal and choroidal imaging, ultra-widefield optical coherence tomography (UWF-OCT) offers significant gains in terms of information pertaining to peripheral retinal lesions and their differential diagnoses. In particular, it enables the presence of minimal accumulations of subretinal fluid to be assessed in detail and then documented. It also enables choroidal expansion of choroidal lesions to be precisely measured.