Abhidnya Surve¹*, Ranjana Deshmukh², Mallika Buche³ and Govind Deshmukh¹

¹Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
²Department of Medicine, Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
³Department of Radiology, Dr. Hedgewar Rugnalaya, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding Author: Abhidnya Surve, Consultant - Ophthalmology (Vitreo-retina, Uvea and ROP Services), Dr. Hedgewar Hospital, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

Received: May 23, 2021; Published: August 18, 2021

Keywords: COVID; Visual hallucination; Confrontation Test

A 52-year-old male with a history of diabetes mellitus and hypertension for 10 years presented with complaints of visualization of colored sparks and absurd figures in the left eye (LE) for the last 3 days. These were very disturbing for the patient. He had history of mild headache but no complaints of giddiness or vomiting. There was no history of trauma or any medication intake other than that for diabetes and hypertension. He had suffered COVID infection 30 days back (RTPCR positive) for which he received treatment outside (oral azathioprine, hydroxychloroquine, steroids and favipiravir). Also, he complained of having poor vision in the right eye (RE) since 8 years for which no treatment was received. On examination, RE had visual acuity of perception of light with the projection of rays (PR) inaccurate and LE had a vision of 6/18 with accurate PR. RE had divergent squint with RAPD and neovascularization of iris. Intraocular pressure was 16 mmHg in RE and 12 mmHg in LE. On fundus examination, RE had proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DR) with neovascularization of disc with old retinal detachment while LE had non-proliferative DR with clinically significant macular edema without any disc involvement. The confrontation test suggested the constriction of the temporal field of left side. Perimetry of left eye showed left side temporal hemianopia (Figure 1a).

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Citation

Citation: Abhidnya Surve., et al. “Post-COVID Visual Hallucination".Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 4.9 (2021): 37-38.

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