Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: Two patients had HIV-associated immunocompromise and experienced delays between clinical presentation with monkeypox and initiation of monkeypox-directed treatment. Four patients were hospitalized, and one experienced marked vision impairment. To decrease the risk for autoinoculation, persons with monkeypox should be advised to practice hand hygiene and to avoid touching their eyes, which includes refraining from using contact lenses (2). Health care providers and public health practitioners should be aware that ocular monkeypox, although rare, is a sight-threatening condition. Patients with signs and symptoms compatible with ocular monkeypox should be considered for urgent ophthalmologic evaluation and initiation of monkeypox-directed treatment. Public health officials should be promptly notified of cases of ocular monkeypox. Increased clinician awareness of ocular monkeypox and of approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment might reduce associated morbidity.
Authors: Shama Cash-Goldwasser, Sarah M. Labuda, David W. McCormick, Agam K. Rao, Andrea M. McCollum, Brett W. Petersen, James Chodosh, Catherine M. Brown, Suk Yin Chan-Colenbrander, Caitlin M. Dugdale, Michael Fischer, Amy Forrester, Jayne Griffith, Rachel Harold, Bruce W. Furness, Vivian Huang, Aaron R. Kaufman, Ellen Kitchell, Rachel Lee, Nicholas Lehnertz, Ruth Lynfield, Ketzela Jacobowitz Marsh, Lawrence C. Madoff, Nelson Nicolasora, Dharmendra Patel, Roberto Pineda, Trey Powrzanas, Afsoon Roberts, Maria Teresa Seville, Ami Shah, Joshua M. Wong, Jana M. Ritter, Caroline A. Schrodt, Elliot Raizes, Sapna Bamrah Morris, Jeremy A. W. Gold, Amimah Asif, Amy Beeson, Ramon Bhatia, Brian F. Borah, Kevin Chatham-Stevens, Rewa Choudhary, Eleanor Click, Thomas D. Filardo, Romeo R. Galang, Julia Haston, Sophia Hsu, Gurpreet Kaur, Anne Kimball, James T. Lee, Grace Marx, Janet McNicholl, Maureen J. Miller, Rebecca Noe, Siobhan O’Connor, Kevin O’Laughlin, Kia Padgett, Gail Thompson, Farrell Tobolowsky, Isaac Zulu
Language: English
Subfield: Virology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funders: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Sanofi, Heed Ophthalmic Foundation, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Harvard University, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network, National Institutes of Health, Center for AIDS Research, University of Washington
OpenAlex ID: W4306409082