Efficacy and safety of bloodletting therapy for acute herpes zoster: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Front Neurol · 2025 · PMC12554594 · PMID 41159187

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While bloodletting showed a trend toward greater improvement than drug therapy, the difference was nonsignificant (MD = −0.04; 95% CI: [−0.08, 0.00]; p = 0.06; Figure 14 ), with no heterogeneity ( I 2 = 0%, p = 0.94). 3.10.

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