Ocular surgery in ophthalmic zoster.

Surgical outcome after ophthalmic zoster was analysed with respect to cataract, glaucoma, corneal ulceration and scarring. We used data from the Zoster Clinic and Hospital Activity Analysis (HAA) at Moorfields Eye Hospital and a lipid keratopathy database at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. Conventional surgery for cataract, glaucoma and corneal scarring gave good results which were probably no different from experience with routine cases, although there was a tendency for prolonged post-operative inflammation. Lateral and central tarsorrhaphy for neuroparalytic ulceration almost invariably led to rapid healing.