Herpes Zoster: Risk Factors, Complications and Special Situations

Herpes Zoster: Risk Factors, Complications and Special Situations- a Retrospective Analysis

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.

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• rejection to use patient data