Effects of sulfone treatment on the larynx in leprosy

ABSTRACT

The sulfones - promin and diasone - are of great value in the care of patients suffering from lepromatous laryngeal involvment, both in those who have not required tracheotomy and in those who are wearing tracheal tubes. In an experience of less than two years with these drugs at the Kalaupapa Settlement, 9 patients have been able to remove tubes as a result of that treatment, and at least 2 (perhaps 5) have been saved from tracheotomy. The last death from the chronic bronchitis which follows tracheotomy was in February 1947; the last tracheotomy was in May 1947.