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Vaccine-related retinal artery occlusion in adults: a review of the current literature

      First of all, I am pleased to have an opportunity to discuss our recently published review on vaccine-related retinal artery occlusion (RAO) in adults.
      • Su CK
      • Au SCL.
      Isolated and combined unilateral central retinal artery and vein occlusions after vaccination. A review of the literature.
      Publication and reporting bias are well known in medical research,
      • Dalton JE
      • Bolen SD
      • Mascha EJ.
      Publication bias: the elephant in the review.
      and time lag bias is unavoidable in major public healthcare event as if COVID-19 vaccination.
      • McGauran N
      • Wieseler B
      • Kreis J
      • Schüler YB
      • Kölsch H
      • Kaiser T.
      Reporting bias in medical research - a narrative review.
      Our review clearly listed out the literature search methods on search engine and database used (MEDLINE and PubMed), keywords and MeSH terms applied (vaccine retinal artery occlusion), as well as the date of the search (10th January 2022). It was very clear that only RAO was discussed, so we cannot accept the accuse by Finsterer J that we did not include several reports published before 10th January 2022, i.e. references number 16 – 23 referred by Dr. Finsterer.
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