TY - ECHAP
AU - Fernandes T
AU - Correia BLG
AU - Varão ÁHS
AU - Gomes ATDM
AU - Souza CDFD
AU - Matias AKS
AB - Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that, depending on the host's immune response, has different dermatoneurological manifestations. It can vary from macules with altered sensitivity to secondary skin lesions, such as ulcers and irreversible neural involvement. This disease leaves 3 million people with disabilities in the world, being today the main cause of preventable physical disabilities. This work in question presents a brief approach on leprosy ulcers and describes the case report  of a patient with chronic ulcers in the lower limbs, treated as stasis ulcers for eight years, and for which there was an indication of limbs amputation  due to the lack of responses to  conventional treatment. After diagnose lepromatous leprosy and start specific treatment, the patient presented progressive improvement of ulcerative lesions. The authors emphasize the importance of clinicians and specialists being familiar with the various forms of manifestation of this disease, such as the ulcerative form and thus considering it among the differential diagnoses for ulcers in Brazil, especially in hyper-endemic regions, in order to stop the transmission chain and minimize physical, economic and patient well-being
BT - Problemas e Oportunidades da Saúde Brasileira
DO - 10.22533/at.ed.68920261020
LA - por
N2 - Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that, depending on the host's immune response, has different dermatoneurological manifestations. It can vary from macules with altered sensitivity to secondary skin lesions, such as ulcers and irreversible neural involvement. This disease leaves 3 million people with disabilities in the world, being today the main cause of preventable physical disabilities. This work in question presents a brief approach on leprosy ulcers and describes the case report  of a patient with chronic ulcers in the lower limbs, treated as stasis ulcers for eight years, and for which there was an indication of limbs amputation  due to the lack of responses to  conventional treatment. After diagnose lepromatous leprosy and start specific treatment, the patient presented progressive improvement of ulcerative lesions. The authors emphasize the importance of clinicians and specialists being familiar with the various forms of manifestation of this disease, such as the ulcerative form and thus considering it among the differential diagnoses for ulcers in Brazil, especially in hyper-endemic regions, in order to stop the transmission chain and minimize physical, economic and patient well-being
PB - Atena Editora
PY - 2020
SE - 20
SN - 9786557064689
SP - 202
EP - 211
T2 - Problemas e Oportunidades da Saúde Brasileira
TI - ÚLCERAS NA HANSENÍASE: BREVE ABORDAGEM E RELATO DE CASO ULCERS IN LEPROSY: BRIEF APPROACH AND CASE REPORT
UR - https://www.finersistemas.com/atenaeditora/index.php/admin/api/artigoPDF/40159
ER -