RESUMO Introdução: a hanseníase é uma doença infectocontagiosa que prevalece como problema de saúde pública no Brasil. Objetivo: descrever o perfil sociodemográfico, de tratamento e clínico de pacientes que concluíram o tratamento poliquimioterápico para a hanseníase. Método: estudo trans...
Alta del Paciente/estadística & datos numéricos,
Atención Primaria de Salud,
Lepra/enfermería,
Necesidades y Demandas de Servicios de Salud,
Enfermedad Crónica/tratamiento farmacológico,
Enfermedades Transmisibles/clasificación,
Quimioterapia Combinada,
Perfil de Salud,
Mycobacterium leprae,
Lepra Tuberculoide/enfermería,
Diagnóstico
ABSTRACT Leprosy can be considered a dissimulated disease, mainly when presented as atypical cases leading to mistaken diagnosis at the emergency setting. Herein we report six patients referred to the emergence room with hypotheses of acute myocardial infarction and arterial and venous thrombosis, althou...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has limited the access of patients with Hansen's disease (HD) to care due to changes in routine health services. METHODS: To ascertain this, we compared the number of HD cases diagnosed before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. RESULTS: The d...
ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze activity limitations in patients with leprosy and their association to cognition and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Methods: this cross-sectional design study included sixty patients with multibacillary leprosy assisted at a reference center. Participants were divided accord...
RESUMO Objetivo analisar o perfil de funcionalidade e deficiência de pessoas afetadas pela hanseníase. Métodos estudo quantitativo, realizado com 43 pessoas em seis unidades de referência, contendo grupos de apoio ao autocuidado em hanseníase. Foram utilizados um questionário sociodemográfico ...
Objective: to know the interferences of leprosy in women's lives and how they reinvent themselves in coping with the disease. Method: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The theoretical-methodological framework adopts an approximation to the cartographic method and some concepts of schizoa...
Embora o Brasil venha apresentando uma redução considerável no número de casos novos de hanseníase, alguns estudos têm demonstrado transmissão ativa mesmo em áreas não endêmicas, como o estado de São Paulo. Diante disso, investigamos o perfil sociodemográfico, clínico e geoespacial dos casos...
Pescarini, Júlia Moreira;
Teixeira, Camila Silveira Silva;
Silva, Nívea Bispo da;
Sanchez, Mauro Niskier;
Natividade, Marcio Santos da;
Rodrigues, Laura Cunha;
Penna, Maria Lúcia Fernandes;
Barreto, Maurício Lima;
Brickley, Elizabeth B;
Penna, Gerson Oliveira;
Nery, Joilda Silva.
Abstract: Our study aims to describe trends in new case detection rate (NCDR) of leprosy in Brazil from 2006 to 2017 overall and in subgroups, and to analyze the evolution of clinical and treatment characteristics of patients, with emphasis on cases diagnosed with grade 2 physical disabilities. We conduc...
Abstract A 39-year-old woman was diagnosed with relapsed multibacillary leprosy and refractory neuritis. Here, we describe an evident loss of therapeutic effectiveness after the third pulse of corticosteroids, which may be attributed to tachyphylaxis and the posterior modulation of interferon- γ (IF...
