02032nas a2200205   4500000000100000008004100001653001200042653001400054653001300068100002200081700002200103700001800125700002400143700002000167245013600187856009700323300000900420490000700429520139000436       2017                            d10aleprosy10aAdmission10aEthiopia1 aOrtiz Martínez S1 aOrtiz Martínez C1 aReyes Rabel F1 aBelinchón Romero I1 aRamos Rincón J00aCaracterísticas epidemiológicas en pacientes ingresados por lepra en un hospital rural de referencia en Etiopía durante 14 años  uhttps://www.leprosy-information.org/files/Revista%20de%20Leprologia%202017%20enero-abril.pdf  a7-140 v313 a<p><em>Introduction: </em>The objective of the study was to analyze the clinical and evolutionary characteristics of the patients admitted to a specific hospitalization room for leprosy at the Hospital Rural of Gambo<br />
<em>Methods: </em>Retrospective data collection of patients admitted for leprosy using the admission logbooks from September 2002 to September 2016 at the General Rural Hospital of Gambo.<br />
<em>Results: </em>During the study period, there were 2,134 admissions in the leprosy ward; there were 1,386 (64.9%) men, the ratio of admissions for men / women was 1.9. One hundred and eighty patients (8.4%) were 18 years or younger. The number of new cases was 287 (13.4%) compared to the old cases, 1,847 (86.6%). One thousand seven hundred and eighty four patients presented multibacillary leprosy (83.6%). The main diagnosis during admission was neuropathic skin ulcers (n = 1280; 60%). Other diagnoses in order of frequency were leprosy reactions (n = 305, 14.3%) and neuropathy (n = 132, 6.2%). The median hospital stay was 58 days (interquartile range: 31-96.5). The majority of the patients recovered satisfactorily at the 1822 discharge (84.9%). Mortality was low 1.7%.<br />
<em>Conclusions: </em>The majority of the patients were men, who entered the course of the disease (in treatment or old lepers), most of them adults and mainly ulcerations.</p>