Year-long use of a typical antiviral treatment for shingles was particularly impactful in reducing complications when the condition eventually affected the eye ...
Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye, according to ...
low-dose antiviral treatment,” said Bennie Jeng, chair of Ophthalmology at the Perelman School of Medicine. Ocular shingles begins in the nerve connecting the brain to the eye and is present in ...
Taking an antiviral medication for a year may prevent vision damage associated with shingles that affects the eye, according to new research led by faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...