Herpes of the eye (herpes zoster keratites) is also called Herpes “Zoster.” It gets into a nerve called the trigeminal and come from a previous chicken pox infection.

A 56-year-old immunocompetent male presented with a 2-day history of decreased vision and floaters in the left eye. His past ophthalmic history included a single episode of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus ...

Shingles is caused by reactivation of latent varicella zoster (VZ) virus. Most people in the UK are infected with VZ in childhood, resulting in chickenpox, an unpleasant but generally mild disease.

Many clinicians acknowledge that herpes zoster (or shingles) is not something they would wish to have, but they also seem to believe it just comes and goes. This could explain the rather low rate of ...

The Zoster Eye Disease Study (ZEDS), supported by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, aims to determine the best treatment to reduce the complications of herpes zoster ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Valacyclovir can be beneficial for treating multiple episodes of keratitis or iritis in patients with ...

NYU Langone Medical Center will lead a five-year, 60-center clinical trial to evaluate new treatment protocols for herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO), a form of shingles that can seriously and ...

The varicella-zoster virus is responsible for about 1 million new shingles cases in the U.S. each year—and shingles vision side effects occur in about 80,000 of them. Despite the relative rarity of ...

NEW ORLEANS — Although most adults 40 years and older are at risk for herpes zoster infection, also known as shingles, uptake of the vaccine (Zostavax) to prevent infection is disappointing, ...

The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) causes two distinct infections: varicella and herpes zoster. Varicella, commonly known as chickenpox, manifests as the primary infection with VZV, which is a member of ...