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| Id: | 13482
| | Author: | Ticho, U; Ben Sira, I
| | Title: | Ocular leprosy in Malawi
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| | Source: | s.l; s.n; feb. 1970. 6 p. ilus, tab.
| | Abstract: | The ocular condition 8,235 Malawi leprosy patients surveyed; 6.3 per cent were found to suffer from eye lesions and only 0,3 per cent. were blind. The patients are classified into lepromatous, broderline, and tuberculoid groups. in lepromatous patients eye lesions occur in the later stages of the sidease, and in tuberculoid patients at an earlier stage. Lepromatous patients are affected mainly by iridocyclitis and superficial puntacte keratitis. Tuberculoid patients mainly from lagophthalmos and corneal anaesthesia due to nerve palsy. The lw incidence of ocular manifestations is considered to be due in part to the wide use of sulphones; this is especially true in the lepromatous group, in which only 6 per cent. had eye lesions while under dapsone treatmet. In tuberculois patients under current treatment eye manifestations were present in 4i per cent. Steroids are highly effective in controlling hypersensitivity reactions of the uvea.(AU).
| | Descriptors: | MALAUI
CERATITE/compl
UVEITE ANTERIOR/compl
OFTALMOPATIAS/etiol
CEGUEIRA/etiol
DAPSONA/uso terap
HANSENIASE/compl
HANSENIASE/quimioter
HANSENIASE/etiol
CORTICOSTEROIDES/uso terap
| | Limits: | HUMANO
| | Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| | Location: | BR191.1; 00331/s |
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