Author | Brandão, Maria Luiza Figueiredo Braga | |
Author | Lima, Cíntia Maria Oliveira | |
Author | Piñeiro-Maceira, Juan | |
Author | Miranda, Alice | |
Author | Oliveira, M. Leide W. de | |
Access date | 2020-02-25T12:24:35Z | |
Available date | 2020-02-25T12:24:35Z | |
Document date | 2011 | |
Citation | BRANDÃO, Maria Luiza Figueiredo Braga et al. Early diagnosis of relapse in borderline leprosy: two case reports. Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. São Paulo, São Paulo, v. 53, n. 6, p. 341-343, Dec. 2011. | pt_BR |
ISSN | 0036-4665 | pt_BR |
URI | https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/40116 | |
Language | eng | pt_BR |
Publisher | Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo | pt_BR |
Rights | open access | pt_BR |
Subject in Portuguese | Hanseníase | pt_BR |
Subject in Portuguese | Recaída | pt_BR |
Subject in Portuguese | Hanseníase limítrofe | pt_BR |
Title | Early diagnosis of relapse in borderline leprosy: two case reports | pt_BR |
Type | Article | pt_BR |
DOI | 10.1590/s0036-46652011000600008 | |
Abstract | Two cases of relapse in borderline leprosy were reported. Despite the late-reversal, reaction-like feature, the suspicion of relapse in both was based on persistent and slow-developing skin lesions and an absence of acute neuritis or reaction during one year of follow-up. The authors have considered this possible occurrence in lepromatous borderline-treated patients after their immune cellular restoration and defend that not all Type 1 reactions would be an inflammatory answer to persistent Mycobacterium leprae, but that they could be. Therefore, a relapse diagnosis could be applied and it is more advisable, as one year of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) is less dangerous and more efficient for these cases than one year of corticosteroids. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Serviços de Dermatologia e Anatomopatologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Serviços de Dermatologia e Anatomopatologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Serviços de Dermatologia e Anatomopatologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Hanseníase. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Affilliation | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho. Serviços de Dermatologia e Anatomopatologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. | pt_BR |
Subject | Leprosy | pt_BR |
Subject | Relapse | pt_BR |
Subject | Borderline leprosy | pt_BR |
e-ISSN | 1678-9946 | |