[Ocular complications in ophthalmic zoster (author's transl)].
Ocular complications occur in about 50% of cases of ophthalmic zoster. They include inflammatory reactions of the eyelid, conjunctivitis, scleritis, keratitis, iridocyclitis, secondary glaucoma, optic neuritis, internal ophthalmoplegia, ocular motor palsies and exophthalmos. Very dangerous complications are a concomitant facial paralysis and a neuroparalytic keratitis. Then a tarsorrhaphy should be done in time. An ophthalmologist should be consulted, when the side of the tip of the nose presents vesicles (Hutchinson's rule).
D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000150:complications; D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000150:complications; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000150:complications; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000150:complications; D006563:Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007634:Keratitis / Q000150:complications; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000150:complications; D009902:Optic Neuritis / Q000150:complications; D014606:Uveitis, Anterior / Q000150:complications
Augenkomplikationen bei Zoster ophthalmicus