Doctors in the United States have discovered a new rare but dangerous symptom of the coronavirus, which has been observed in several patients with COVID-19 in New York. The BGR portal reports.
As the portal notes, in two months, doctors in New York recorded three cases when patients infected with coronavirus developed such a symptom as keratitis – inflammation of the cornea. Later, the infection in all three of them spread to the inner membranes of the eyeball, causing endophthalmitis.
As a result, one of these patients died due to complications associated with the coronavirus, the second lost his sight, and the third had to remove one eye.
According to experts, the transition of keratitis to endophthalmitis is quite rare in medical practice, and most people should not worry too much about this. However, the identification of three such cases in such a short time indicates the need for further research on the effect of coronavirus on eye infections.
Earlier in December, a group of scientists from Iceland discovered another symptom of coronavirus. So, according to the researchers, more than half of patients with COVID-19 had myalgia.