RESEARCH ON CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS, CORRELATIVE FACTORS AND EVALUATING THE RESULTS OF TOPICAL TREATMENT OF ZONA WITH HE-NE LASER COMBINATION AT CAN THO DERMATO-VENEREOLOGY HOSPITAL IN 2021

Thi Kim Ngan Lac1,, Thanh Thao Nguyen1, Qui Ngoc Pham1, Thi Thuy Trang Nguyen1, Thanh Thao Pham1, Van Ba Huynh1
1 Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Background: Shingles is a common skin infection, caused by the latent Varicella zoster virus in the paraspinal cranial nerve ganglia, when there are favorable factors such as immunosuppression makes the virus active again. The disease greatly affects the patient's quality of life. Objectives: Survey to determine clinical manifestations, correlative factors and evaluate the results of topical treatment of herpes zoster with He-Ne laser combination at Can Tho DermatoVenereology Hospital in 2021. Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study with 75 Zona patients who were treated according to the usual regimen and combined with local He-Ne laser at Can Tho Dermato-Venereology Hospital. Results: The disease that occurs in the age group over 60 years old is the most common (56%). Pain was found in 100% of patients. The vesicle lesions accounted for the highest rate (84%), the most commonly affected area was trunk 38.7%. Mild level accounted for 57.3%. The group of patients with more than 5 days of illness had a longer hospital stay (42.9%). After treatment with He-Ne laser, 66.7% had good treatment results. Conclusions: Herpes zoster disease occurs at any age, but mainly in the elderly with vesicles and pain in most of the patients, commonly on the trunk and head-face-neck area. Attention should be paid to the time before admission, the state of co-infection because they reduce the response to treatment. The combination of He-Ne laser with conventional regimens helped to cure and effectively reduce pain in Herpes Zoster patients.

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