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. 2021 Aug;35(8):2322-2323.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01137-x. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on retinal detachments

Alicia Poyser  1 , Sundeep S Deol  1 , Lina Osman  1 , Tharsica Sivagnanasithiyar  1 , Helen J Kuht  2 , Roslyn Manrique  1 , Linda O Okafor  1 , David Sharpe  3 , Vijay Savant  1 , Usman Sarodia  1 , Nagini Sarvananthan  1 , Ray Chaudhuri  1 , Somnath Banerjee  1 , Joyce Burns  1 , Mervyn G Thomas  4   5
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown on retinal detachments

Alicia Poyser et al. Eye (Lond). 2021 Aug.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Vitreoretinal pathologies presenting to the eye emergency department.
Reduced number of cases were seen for posterior vitreous detachments (PVD) (a) retinal tears (b) and retinal detachment (c) during COVID19 related lockdown in the UK compared against an equivalent period in 2019. The proportion of macula off retinal detachments was significantly higher during lockdown (c).
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