Erschienen in:
18.12.2018 | CE - Research Letter to the Editor
Patients with appendectomy are at increased risk of herpes zoster: real-world data in Taiwan
verfasst von:
Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2019
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Some case reports showed that despite being rare, acute appendicitis could be caused by primary varicella-zoster virus infection [
1]. Epidemiologic studies have shown that appendectomy is associated with increased risk of various infections including pyogenic liver abscess and biliary tract infection [
2,
3], but the relationship between appendectomy and herpes zoster has not yet been explored. To explore this relationship, a cohort study was conducted using the database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program with 23 million citizens living in an independent country of Taiwan [
4]. …