J Korean Pain Soc.
1990 Dec;3(2):160-164.
Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus Accompanyng Blindness, Extraocular Motor Palsies and Contralateral Hemiplegia: A Case Report
- Affiliations
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- 1Pain Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology, Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
Abstract
- Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus comprises 7% of all herpes zoster infection, 50% of those involving eyeballs, and is one disease entitiy with a very grave prognosis. We have experienced a 68-year-old man who visited the emergency room complaining of severe pain in his eye and headache with loss of vision. He was seen by neurosurgeons, dermatologists and ophthalmologists, and finally sent to the pain clinic for control of pain under the diagnosis of herpes zoster ophthalmicus. In spite of zealous treatment efforts, loss of vision, pain and infectious condition did not recover; and furthermore. due to severe infection, he had his eyeball extracted 100 days after the onset of diseases. 140 days after onset, contralateral hemiplegia accompanied the disease process. We present an unusual case of herpes zoster ophthalmicus with no treatment effect.
