A Clinical Study of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus

Herpes zoster in outpatient departments of healthcare centers in India: a review of literature

“…Post Google scholar search, 13 additional articles were further added. [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] Also the 2013 paper from Nithyanandam et al 25 was a post-hoc analysis, so we retrieved the data from the primary publication. 41 Data were extracted from the 27 relevant articles for review.…”

“…18,19,21,33 Eight studies reported exclusively on HZO cases. 16,17,23,32,35,37,38,41 Of the 27 publications, seven 21,22,24,27,28,31,40 provided proportions of HZ cases among all patients who attended outpatient visits in the considered departments, ranging between 0.28 and 2.36% (Figure 1). For example in the study with the largest sample size conducted in a rural hospital in Gujarat, 938 HZ cases were reported between June 2008 and December 2016 among all dermatology outpatients, yielding a proportion of 0.38%.…”

“…14,16,19,20,22,24,[28][29][30][31]33,35,37,38,41 Six studies found the ratios to be in the order of 2:1, 15,17,23,26,36,40 Five studies, however, reported more women patients with HZ than men, in the range of 0.6:1 to 0.9:1. 18,21,32,34,39…”

“…HIV status of the enrolled population was clearly stated in 23 studies. 14,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][26][27][28]31,32,[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] For other studies, HIV status was either not assessed or mentioned. The reported frequency of HIV seropositivity among the studied patients varied between 0% 22,27,38 and 44.4%.…”

“…The reported frequency of HIV seropositivity among the studied patients varied between 0% 22,27,38 and 44.4%. 17 Diabetes mellitus was reported in 15 studies 14,16,20,22,23,[27][28][29]32,[34][35][36][37][38][39] with a percentage range of 0% 27 to 56.3%. 35 The highest proportion of diabetes (56.3%) was reported in a study conducted in the Ophthalmology department of a tertiary hospital in Odisha where 20/32 patients (62.5%) were older than 60 years of age.…”