ArticleAmerican journal of ophthalmology case reports2022
Covid-19 vaccination and possible link to Herpes zoster.
Article in American journal of ophthalmology case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Meningitis after COVID-19 vaccination, a systematic review of case reports and case series.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Pooled it
- Herpes zoster ophthalmicus temporally after COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review of uncontrolled case reports and case series.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2025Article
- Risk of Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus After COVID-19 Vaccination in a Large US Health Care Claims Database.American journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Herpes Zoster Virus Reactivation in a 16 Year Old Female Post COVID-19 Vaccine. Case report and Review of the Literature.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2023Review
- Corneal Adverse Events Associated with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systematic Review.Vaccines · 2023Review
- Herpes Zoster and COVID-19 Vaccination: A Narrative Review.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2023Review
- Corneal Complications after COVID-19 Vaccination: A Systemic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Apparent lack of association of COVID-19 vaccination with Herpes Zoster.American journal of ophthalmology case reports · 2022Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeTo report 3 otherwise healthy patients with Herpes zoster reactivation shortly after administration of a mRNA vaccine against the novel COVID-19 virus. OBSERVATIONS: Patient 1 is a 54 year old who presented with Herpes zoster meningitis complicated by enhancing nodular leptomeningeal lesions of the spinal cord. The subsequent two patients had Herpes zoster ophthalmicus of the cornea (Case 2) and eyelid (Case 3). All three presented within 2 weeks of receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
conclusionsHerpes zoster may be a side effect of m RNA vaccination against the Sars-CoV2 vaccine and requires further investigation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.