Herpes Zoster: Risk Factors, Complications and Special Situations

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Herpes Zoster

Treatments: Other: retrospective chart review

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03903237

2018-02270 sp19Mueller2;

Details and patient eligibility

About

This retrospective analysis is to investigate patients' history and clinical presentation in Herpes Zoster (HZ), Zoster-related complications, post-Zoster neuralgia and Herpes Zoster management in order to improve the management of HZ patients, to refine HZ-vaccination strategies and elucidate cost factors of HZ in in the setting of a university hospital in Switzerland generally and in a dermatology department specifically.

Enrollment: 355 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Reports of patients with HZ at University Hospital Basel between 2004-2018

Exclusion criteria

• rejection to use patient data