RESULTS
PHN, pain, rash, abdominal pain
HERPES ZOSTER, PHN, EVENTS
Eight patients accept the intervention and complete all follow‐ups. All of them are female, with a mean age of 63.7 years (range from 50 to 76 years), while seven of them have a high school degree. All patients are suffered from chest, back or abdominal pain due to emerging herpes zoster, the mean duration for pain is 19.8 days (range from 10 to 27 days), with a rash appeared in about 1–5 days after pain. All patients have accepted or are accepting standard antivirus and analgesic medication. The affected spinal segment including T2–T12, demographic characters for all patients are presented in Table Demographic characteristics for all participantsFour patients have fat harvested from the lower abdomen, while remaining of them had fat harvested from the thighs. The amount of harvested fat ranges from 10–15 mL, according to patients’ physique. Liposuction and injection associated factors are presented in Table Treatment associated variablesFor primary outcome, no PHN events occurred, with all patients report pain intensity ≤3 in the VAS scale in 3 months after treatment. Our results also present a significant time‐dependent pain relief phenomenon (The degree of average pain after autologous fat grafting to the paravertebral space.The electrical pain threshold assessed at each follow‐up. The column factor refers to time after treatment; the row factor refers to the place of the measured skin.Secondary outcomesLikert scale: 1 = very unsatisfied, 2 = unsatisfied, 3 = neither satisfied nor unsatisfied, 4 = satisfied and 5 = very satisfied.* Heat map for the quality of life based on Short‐Form 36 scale.