Clinical cure of leprosy. A criteria in Japan. (2002).

Therapeutic alternatives for the treatment of residual hansenoma in patients with cure criteria of leprosy

Hansenomas originate from the intense cutaneous infiltration by Mycobacterium leprae bacilli in Virchowian hansenic patients who tend to improve with treatment, however can develop keloid reactions. Alternative approaches are described for the treatment of disseminated receding hansenomas in the ears, face, upper limbs, and trunk in already treated virchowian patients. The exeresis of the lesio...

A Cure for Leprosy at Last

A meeting in support of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association was held on January 31, at the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding. The Association is appealing for ?250,000 to extend the cure for leprosy which is believed to have been found, and also to continue research work. The speakers were Lord Chelmsford, Chairman of the Association, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir Humphrey Rollest...

Criteria of Chagas disease cure.

The investigation of the rational etiological treatment of Chagas disease, through controlled clinical trials, only began around half a century after the discovery of the disease. This resulted from a meeting held in Rio de Janeiro, in 1962, between a number of Brazilian researchers and representatives from the pharmaceutical industry (Anais 1962). Two facts were then known: (1) nitrofuran comp...

Chagas disease: criteria of cure and prognosis.

Revalidation of various clinical criteria for the classification of leprosy--a clinic-pathological study.

UNLABELLED WHO guidelines classify leprosy patients clinically into PB and MB group based on the number of skin lesions (NSL) with > or = 6 skin lesions as a criterion for MB leprosy. Other clinical criteria for classification are based on the number of body areas affected (NBAA) and on size of the largest skin lesions (SLSL). They are also fairly simple and easily practicable in the field. O...