Treatment of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia
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[Treatment of herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia].
Herpes zoster, a biphasic disease with different kinds of pain is a challenge for pain therapy. The acute illness with mixed pain (nociceptive - neuropathic) requires antivirals for risk patients and pain treatment according to rules of acute pain therapy. For treatment of postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) an example of neuropathic pain, antidepressants, anticonvulsants and topical lidocaine are tod...
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Herpes zoster (HZ; shingles) results from reactivation of varicella-zoster virus that has been dormant in the spinal and cranial sensory ganglia following primary infection with varicella (chickenpox), usually during childhood. In developed countries more than 95% of the adult population are seropositive for varicella-zoster virus and are therefore at risk of developing HZ. Reactivation can occ...
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Michael C. Rowbotham, MD California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute Department of Anesthesia, UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, Calif., USA Email: [email protected] P ostherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is t e most frequent chronic complication of herpes zoster ( hingles). Herpes zoster (HZ) represents a reactivation of the varicella zo ter vi us (VZV), a ubiquitous, highly neurotropic,...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7392.748