Abstract

ABREU GUILLEN, Glenys de Jesús  and  ESCALONA VELOZ, Rafael. Clinical and epidemiological characterization of patients with leprosy reactional states. MEDISAN [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.7, pp. 852-860. ISSN 1029-3019.

An observational and descriptive study of 50 patients with reactional states of leprosy, admitted in the Dermatology Service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba was carried out during the five year period 2009-2013, in order to characterize them according to some clinical and epidemiological variables, for which the calculation percentage and the Pearson correlation test were also used. The male sex (56.0%), the age group 30-49 (48.0%) and the clinical variety dimorpha lepromatous (40.0%) prevailed in the series; it was also observed that the reactional states appeared mainly after the treatment (64.0%), in general with just one episode (58.0%), and that the reversion reaction was more common (32.0%), with a higher frequency in the severe type (69.0%)

Keywords : leprosy; reactional states; reversion reaction; erythema nodosum; matology Service.

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