ABSTRACT Background: Peripheral neural surgical decompression (PNSD) is used as a complementary therapy to the clinical treatment of neuritis to preserve neural function. Objective: To evaluate the long-term (≥ 1 year) clinical and functional results for PNSD in leprosy neuritis. Methods: This...
Abstract Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and, depending on the host immune status, presents different clinical forms. This report describes the case of a 46-year-old man who had hypoesthetic lesions in the infrahyoid region for 30 days. The bacilloscopy was negative...
Abstract Leprosy is an infectious disease with chronic evolution, caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid-fast bacillus that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nervous tissue. Many of the clinical manifestations of leprosy can mimic connective tissue diseases. The authors present the case of a 49-yea...
Resumo As orientações para prevenção de incapacidades físicas por hanseníase vêm ganhando destaque no controle da doença para além da poliquimioterapia. O objetivo deste artigo é descrever as mudanças, de forma cronológica, nas orientações técnicas para prevenção das incapacidades físic...
Abstract: Histoid leprosy (HL) is a rare variant of lepromatous leprosy with unique clinical, histopathological, and microbiological features. A 32-year-old man from Malawi who immigrated to Johannesburg 1-year-ago, presented with a 4-month history of flesh-colored nodules on the face and trunk and hyper...
Resumen Los pacientes con lepra lepromatosa que han recibido tratamiento durante años, usualmente requieren seguimiento con biopsias de piel para detectar lesiones persistentes o si la baciloscopia es positiva, incluso si los valores son menores que los iniciales. Se presenta el caso de una mujer de 48 ...
Células Espumosas/patología,
Células Gigantes de Cuerpo Extraño/patología,
Lepra Lepromatosa/patología,
Piel/patología,
Antígenos CD/análisis,
Antígenos de Diferenciación Mielomonocítica/análisis,
Biopsia,
Pared Celular/química,
Quimioterapia Combinada,
Células Espumosas/química,
Células Espumosas/microbiología,
Células Gigantes de Cuerpo Extraño/química,
Células Gigantes de Cuerpo Extraño/microbiología,
Interacciones Huésped-Patógeno,
Leprostáticos/uso terapéutico,
Lepra Lepromatosa/tratamiento farmacológico,
Lípidos/análisis,
Mycobacterium leprae/química,
Mycobacterium leprae/aislamiento & purificación,
Piel/microbiología,
Vacuolas
Resumo OBJETIVO Analisar as relações contextuais da atenção à saúde na alta em hanseníase. MÉTODO Estudo analítico pautado no referencial teórico de análise do contexto, elaborado mediante revisão integrativa de literatura nas bases de dados SCOPUS, PUBMED, LILACS, SCIELO e BDENF, com descr...
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Thalidomide, used to treat erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), is associated with severe adverse events (AEs) and is highly teratogenic. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on thalidomide-treated patients with ENL. AEs and selected variables were investigated through in...
Abstract: Background: Erythema nodosum leprosum may appear before, during or after treatment of leprosy and is one of the main factors for nerve damage in patients. When it occurs or continues to occur after treatment, it may indicate disease recurrence and a new treatment may be instituted again. Obje...
Eritema Nudoso/tratamiento farmacológico,
Eritema Nudoso/microbiología,
Leprostáticos/uso terapéutico,
Lepra Lepromatosa/tratamiento farmacológico,
Lepra Lepromatosa/microbiología,
Lepra Multibacilar/tratamiento farmacológico,
Lepra Multibacilar/microbiología,
Neuritis/tratamiento farmacológico,
Neuritis/microbiología,
Recurrencia,
Retratamiento,
Factores de Tiempo,
Resultado del Tratamiento