Increasing hospitalisation of patients with herpes zoster ophthalmicus-an interdisciplinary retrospective analysis.

Rebecca Diehl Cornelius Jakob Wiedenmann Thomas Reinhard Daniel Böhringer Franziska Schauer

Published in: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie (2023)

If the incidence of herpes zoster ophthalmicus continues to increase at the current rate the number of hospitalisations of zoster ophthalmicus would double by 2040, assuming guideline-appropriate treatment. Overall, the results show a growing need for inpatient ophthalmological care.

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