ABSTRACT
Flu like syndrome was found in a patient of BT leprosy taking Rifampicin in pulse therapy. This side effect was absent when the dose of Rifampicin was decreased. Details of this case is given with a review of literature.
Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Leprosy/drug therapy , Male , Rifampin/adverse effectsABSTRACT
A patient of Lepromatous Leprosy had neuropathic plantar ulcer of 6 months duration. He developed "Tetanus". We are reporting this case with review of literature, as there is dearth of published literature on this association of Leprosy and Tetanus.
Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Leprosy/complications , Male , Tetanus/etiologyABSTRACT
A study was conducted to find out the incidence of ocular complications in leprosy. The ocular lesions were found in 6.6% of lepromatous leprosy and 1.6% in nonlepromatous leprosy. Out of 150 patients with eye lesions 74% were males and 80% belonged to lepromatous leprosy. The age group in all the patients varied from 3rd to 6th decade. Mean duration of leprosy ln lepromatous leprosy was 6.2 years. The important eye complication observed were lagophthalmos (8.1%), corneal ulcers (10%) and iridocyclitis (24%). The loss of eye-brows (76%) was found to be most frequent in this study followed by corneal lesion (62%). It is concluded that examination of eyes are essential in all types of leprosy.