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Case Reports
. 2021 Mar 4;14(3):e242043.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-242043.

Paracentral acute middle maculopathy following SARS-CoV-2 infection: the D-dimer hypothesis

Srikanta Kumar Padhy  1 , Rakhi P Dcruz  1 , Anup Kelgaonkar  2
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Paracentral acute middle maculopathy following SARS-CoV-2 infection: the D-dimer hypothesis

Srikanta Kumar Padhy et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; eye; ophthalmology; retina.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A, B) Colour fundus picture of right and left eye, respectively, shows subtle whitish perifoveal lesions along with cotton wool spots along the vascular arcades; (C, D) Swept source optical coherence tomography of right and left eye passing through macula shows focal area of patchy perifoveal hyper-reflectivity in the inner and outer plexiform layers with inner nuclear layer volume loss consistent with paracentral acute middle maculopathy.
Figure 2
Figure 2
First month follow-up (A, B) Colour fundus picture of right and left eye, respectively, shows resolving perifoveal whitish lesions and cotton wool spots; (C, D) Swept source optical coherence tomography of right and left eye passing through macula shows reduced hyperreflectivity with the irregularity of inner and outer plexiform layers and thinning of inner nuclear layer perifoveally.
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