Reactional leprosy. A case report

Authors

  • Isabel Moreira Ríos Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Instructora. Máster en enfermedades infecciosas. Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología y Microbiología. Pinar del Río.
  • Claribel Vázquez Rivera Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista de Primer Grado en Dermatología. Policlínico "5 de septiembre". Consolación del Sur. Pinar del Río.
  • Elba Cruz Rodriguez Especialista de Primer Grado en Medicina General Integral. Especialista de Primer Grado en Higiene y Epidemiología. Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología, Microbiología. Pinar del Río.
  • Ailadis Rivera Moreira Licenciada en enfermería. Policlínico Raúl Sánchez. Pinar del Río.
  • Diana Belkys Mujica González Especialista de Primer grado en Medicina General Integral. Instructora. Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología Microbiología. Pinar del Río.

Keywords:

Leprosy, Reactional leprosy, Erythema nodosum leprosum.

Abstract

Reactional leprosy is a clinical modality of acute and sub-acute presentation which is local or general, expression of an immunological phenomenon that occurs in the natural history of the disease. It can arise in almost the 30% of the multibacillary, lepromatous and dimorphous patients. In this current study a case of forty four-year-old male patient diagnosed as lepromatous leprosy was reported. The patient presented an exacerbated presentation of the clinical chart with disseminated and infiltrated nodules corresponding to a type-2 reactional leprosy and erythema nodosum leprosum.

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2012-05-04

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Moreira Ríos I, Vázquez Rivera C, Cruz Rodriguez E, Rivera Moreira A, Mujica González DB. Reactional leprosy. A case report. Rev Ciencias Médicas [Internet]. 2012 May 4 [cited 2025 Sep. 19];16(2):226-32. Available from: https://revcmpinar.sld.cu/index.php/publicaciones/article/view/904

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2012)

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CASE REPORTS

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