Abstract

ORAMAS FERNANDEZ, Diana Karina; CRUZATA RODRIGUEZ, Larixa; SOTTO VARGAS, Juan David  and  POULOT LIMONTA, Santos. Leprosy course analyzed in two polyclinics from La Lisa municipality. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.4, pp. 77-85. ISSN 1561-3038.

Leprosy is a chronic and communicable disease as ancient as the man per se. In Cuba a national program has been developed aimed to its prevention, early diagnosis and treatment in a appropriate way. Aim of present paper was to characterize its course in two polyclinics from La Lisa municipality from 2000 to 2008, establishing the relation between the clinic way and the late diagnosis in study years, and also to characterize patients according to age, sex and race, as well as to determine the inability degree. A retrospective and analytical study to characterize the leprosy course and sample included all the notified and registered leprosy cases in the two polyclinics during this period. A form including the clinical, sociodemographic and epidemiologic variables as well as the epidemiologic surveys of all the leprosy study cases was designed. The statistical percentage method was used for data processing showed in tables and in text. As result, when diagnosis date with the first symptoms was analyzed according to the clinical way of disease, we noted that the higher percentage of sick persons was late diagnosed, and from this group the clinical leprosy presentation provides the great number of cases. It is evident that the year of greater disease incidence was the 2008 one, the more affected age group is between the 45 and 54 years old with a prevailing of male sex and the black people and only one patient with inability degree 2.

Keywords : Leprosy; lepromatous form; indeterminate leprosy; tuberculoid leprosy; dimorphous leprosy; late diagnosis; inability.

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