Eye Scan Could Determine Which COVID Patients Could Struggle With Symptoms

  • Date: 29-Jul-2021
  • Source: Newsweek
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Qatar
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Eye Scan Could Determine Which COVID Patients Could Struggle With Symptoms

Doctors at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar say they found a link between long-term COVID and nerve fiber loss as well as increased immune cells on the surface of the eye.

The study, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, said through an eye scan, doctors can identify increased nerve fiber loss and increased immune cells which they say appears in individuals suffering from long COVID.

Researchers involved with the study define long COVID as the continuation of symptoms for four weeks beyond the time in which the inflammatory response phase of the infection has passed. Around one out of 10 people who contract COVID-19 suffer from these long-term symptoms.