Prevalence and etiologies of visual handicaps in leprosy patients in the south of Cameroon

Eballe, André Omgbwa; Owono, Didier; Book, Alphonse Um; Bella, Assumpta Lucienne; Mvogo, Côme Ebana; Nsom,

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“…17 According to World Health Organisation criteria of blindness, 2.9% patients were blind in the present study similar to the study by Thompson of low vision. 20 In a study by Mpyet C and Solomon AW, 37% of the ocular lesions were leprosy related and was potentially sight threatening. Cataract was the commonest cause of blindness and other causes were non-trachomatous corneal opacity and trachoma.…”

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Ocular Morbidity Among Leprosy Patients at a Leprosy Centre

Shrestha

et al. 2018

Med. J. Shree Birendra Hosp.

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This work is licensed under creative common license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © MJSBH 2018 ABSTRACT Introduction: Leprosy is one of the dreaded communicable disease due to its profound morbidity. In earlier days in Nepal, a different settlement was designated for leprosy patient and their families.Khokana of Lalitpur district of Nepal is one of them. The study was conducted to determine ocular morbidity among leprosy patients who had completed multi drug therapy. Methods:It was descriptive, quantitative and cross sectional study conducted at Khokana Leprosy Centre in Lalitpur district of Nepal. Leprosy patients who had completed multi drug therapy and consenting for the study were enrolled. Convenience sampling was done and the sample size was 70. After detail ophthalmic evaluation, socio-demographic profile of the participants and their ocular morbidities were documented and analysed.Results: Major findings were superciliary madarosis (78.57%), ciliary madarosis (61.4%), different grades of cataract (67.10% right eye and 60% left eye), pseudophakia (30% right eye and 37.10% left eye), tylosis (44.3%), corneal hypoesthesia (10% unilaterally and 15.7% bilaterally) and dry eye (10%).Entropion was present in 2.9% both unilaterally and bilaterally. Ectropion was present in 5.7% unilaterally and 10% bilaterally. Trichiasis was present in 1.4% unilaterally and 2.9% bilaterally.Similarly, eyelid nodule was present in 7.1% unilaterally and 1.4% bilaterally. Incomplete closure of the lids was present in 8.6% unilaterally and 2.9% bilaterally. Exposure keratitis was present in 7.1% unilaterally and 1.4% bilaterally, corneal opacity in 2.9% unilaterally and 1.4% bilaterally and corneal perforation in 2.9% unilaterally. Chronic iridocyclitis was present in 2.9% cases. Retinal pearls were seen in 2.86% of cases. According to WHO criteria of blindness, 2.9% patients were blind in the present study. 14 persons were unilaterally blind and among them, two had severe visual impairment in the other eye, eight had other eye moderate visual impairment and four had other eye mild visual impairment. Conclusions:Lid abnormalities, corneal abnormalities and cataract were the commonly encountered ocular morbidities among treated leprosy patients.

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Ocular Morbidity Among Leprosy Patients at a Leprosy Centre

Shrestha

et al. 2018

Med. J. Shree Birendra Hosp.

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“…Kaur ve ark. 29 33 . Yüksek sosyoekonomik duruma sahip eğitimli lepralı kadınların diğer kadınlardan daha fazla sosyal problemlere sahip olduğunu bildiren çalışmalara benzer şekilde 22 lepralı hastalardan okur-yazar olanların fiziksel fonksiyon, fiziksel rol güçlüğü, vitalite ve sosyal fonksiyonlarının okur-yazar olmayanlara kıyasla önemli düzeyde olumsuz yönde etkilendiğini saptadık.…”

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Quality of life in lepromatous leprosy patients

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Uçak²,

Dertlioğlu³

et al. 2014

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Background and Design:Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae bacillus affecting the skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy can lead to severe deformities depending on the extent of the disease. In this study, we aimed to investigate the quality of life of patients with lepromatous leprosy. Materials and Methods: Thirty-five patients with lepromatous leprosy and 35 healthy controls were included in the study. The patients were evaluated with the Turkish version of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). The relationship of quality of life with age, gender, marital status, and the grade of the visual impairment was studied and compared with the healthy controls. Results: Total and all the subgroup DLQI scores were higher in the leprosy group than in the control group (p<0.05). The patients with grade 2 visual impairment were more severely affected by the disease with regard to symptoms/feelings and school/work life as compared to the patients with grade 1 visual impairment (p=0.04, p=0.03, respectively). SF-36 physical functioning, physical role functioning, general health perceptions, vitality, social role functioning, and emotional role functioning scores were statistically lower in the patient group than in the control group (p<0.05).

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“…Entretanto, em muitas regiões da África, a ocorrência é igual em ambos os sexos ou até maior no sexo feminino 13 .…”

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“…*poliquimioterapia para pacientes multibacilares, **poliquimioterapia para pacientes paucibacilares, N-frequência absoluta, %-frequência relativa. Alguns estudos brasileiros (ANGELUCCI et al, 2007;COHEN, 1996;MORENO et al, 2003;SOUZA et al, 2005) (EBALLÉ et al, 2009;MORENO et al, 2003;PARIKH et al, 2009). A alta frequência de catarata nos dois grupos, 54,6% no GI e 47,9% no GA, também encontra respaldo na literatura mundial.…”

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Prevalence and etiologies of visual handicaps in leprosy patients in the south of Cameroon

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Ocular Morbidity Among Leprosy Patients at a Leprosy Centre

Ocular Morbidity Among Leprosy Patients at a Leprosy Centre

Quality of life in lepromatous leprosy patients

Saúde ocular de pacientes hansenianos após alta do registro ativo

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