Short‐Term Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Relieve Pain for Elder Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Patients: A Retrospective Study

• Published in: Neuromodulation (Malden, Mass.) Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 1121 - 1126
• Main Authors: Wan, Cheng‐fu, Song, Tao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2021; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: 36‐item Short Form health survey; Aged; Analgesics; Clinical Research; Herpes zoster; Herpes zoster ophthalmicus; Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus - complications; Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus - therapy; Humans; Neuralgia; Neuralgia, Postherpetic - therapy; neuropathic pain; numeric rating scale; Pain; Patients; PERIPHERAL NERVE STIMULATION; Peripheral Nerves; Peripheral neuropathy; Retrospective Studies; Side effects; Tramadol; neuropathic pain; numeric rating scale; herpes zoster ophthalmicus; peripheral nerve stimulation; 36-item Short Form health survey

Objective Ophthalmic postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is the final stage of herpes zoster (HZ) ophthalmicus and a severe refractory neuropathic pain, thus there is no curative treatment that could alleviate pain and reduce the incidence of ophthalmic PHN now. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the...