3. What is Leprosy?
Chronic infectious disease.
World's oldest recorded disease ( 600B.C )
was well-recognized in the civilizations of
ancient China, Egypt, and India.
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Every year January 27 is World Leprosy Day
6. BASED ON SIZE :
Paucibacillary Leprosy (PB) : skin lesions with
no bacilli(M.Leprae) seen in the skin smear
Multibacillary Leprosy (MB): skin lesions with
bacilli (M.Leprae)seen in the skin smear
7. Tuberculoid leprosy:
Can be either one large red patch with well-defined raised
borders or a large hypopigmented asymmetrical spot
Lesions become dry and hairless
Loss of sensation may occur at site of some lesions
Enlargement of nerves with subsequent loss of function are
common
Spontaneous resolution may occur in a few years or it may
progress to borderline or rarely lepromatous types
8. Borderline
tuberculoid
Similar to tuberculoid
type except that lesions
are smaller and more
numerous
Disease may stay in this
stage or convert back to
tuberculoid form, or
progress
Borderline
borderline
Numerous, red,
irregularly shaped plaques
Sensory loss is moderate
Disease may stay in this
stage, improve or worsen
9. Numerous lesions of all kinds, plaques, macules,
papules and nodules. Lesions looking like inverted
saucers are common
Hair growth and sensation are usually not impaired
over the lesions
Borderline lepromatous
10. Numerous lesions of all kinds,
plaques, macules, papules and
nodules
Early symptoms include nasal
stuffiness, discharge and
bleeding, and swelling of the
legs and ankles
Lepromatous leprosy
11. Left untreated, the following problems may occur:
Skin thickens over forehead (leonine facies), eyebrows and
eyelashes are lost, nose becomes misshapen or collapses,
ear lobes thicken, upper incisor teeth fall out
Eye involvement causing photophobia (light sensitivity),
glaucoma and blindness
Skin on legs thickens and forms ulcers when nodules break
down
Internal organ infection causing enlarged liver and lymph
nodes
Voice becomes hoarse
12. What are the symptoms?
Paucibacillary (PB) Leprosy
symptoms are:
Well defined skin lesions that are
numb
Multibacillary (MB) Leprosy
symptoms are:
– Chronically stuffy nose and many skin
lesions and nodules on both sides of the
body
• Mycobacterium leprare multiplies very slowly
• Symptoms can take as long as 20 years to appear
13. Who is at risk?
Mainly affects:
Skin
Eyes
The peripheral nerves
Mucosa of the upper
respiratory tract
• It can affect all ages and both sexes
14. Who is at risk?
A 24-year-old man
infected with leprosy
15. Pharmaceutical Treatment
Multiple Drug Treatment (MDT)
• Effective chemotherapeutic agents:
Dapsone (diamino diphenyl sulfone,
DDS) which was discovered in early
1940’s
Rifampicin (RFP), Clofazimine (CLF)
discovered in 1960’s
Ofloxacin (OFLX), and Minocycline
(MINO) constitute the backbone of the
multidrug therapy (MDT) regimen.
16. Structure of Dapsone (DDS)
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17. About Dapsone
It was dicovered by German chemists Fromm
and Wittmann in 1908
Was not utilized as a treatment until decades
later
Available in 25mg & 100 mg tablets
Rated a pregnancy risk category C by the
American Food and Drug Administration
18. About Rifampicin
In the U.S. Rifampicin is marketed
as:
Rifadin (Aventis)
Rifater ( in combination with
isoniazid and pyrazinamide)
(Aventis)
Rimactane (Novartis)
Rated a pregnancy risk category C
by the American Food and Drug
Administration
19. About Clofazimine
Brand Name: Lamprene
Generic Name: Clofazimine
Initially known as B663, was first synthesized in
1954 by Dr. Vincent Barry and his team as an
anti-tuberculosis drug
Is marketed under the trade name Lamprene®
by Novartis
21. Dosage Cont’d......
RFP Dapsone
Adult
50-70kg
600mg/m* 100mg/d
Child
10-14 years
450mg/m* 50mg/d
Less than 10
years
300mg/m* 25mg/d
Multidrug Therapy for Paucibacillary (PB) Leprosy
PB patients treated with MDT are cured within six
months
*RFP monthly doses are given under supervision
23. Cost of MDT
Since 1995, WHO has supplied MDT FREE of cost to all
leprosy patients in the world.
Initially drug funds were provided by Nippon Foundation
Since 2000, donations are provided by Novartis and the
Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
24. Side Effects
Dapsone (DDS)
Rifampicin (RFP)
Clofazimine (CLF)
Occasional cutaneous
eruptions
A slight reddish coloration of
urine, sweat, and tears
Brownish Black discoloration
and dryness of skin
25. Cases around the World
A 20% annual decrease in new cases detected globally since 2001.
the disease has been eliminated from 108 out of 122.
26. A Day in the Patient’s Life
AN AFFECTIONATE HAND FOR THE NEEDY……….
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27. JALANETI:
Technique related to yoga.
It is the best remedy for nasal stiffness.
Normal saline is passed through one nostril and is
collected from other , which flushes the micro
organisms.
28. The disease was known in Ancient Greece as elephantiasis
A common pre-modern treatment of leprosy
was chaulmoogra oil.
The oil has long been used in India as an
Ayurvedic medicine for the treatment of leprosy
and various skin conditions.
It has also been used in China and Burma, and
was introduced to the West by Frederic John , a
professor at Bengal Medical CollegeBengal Medical College.
He tried the oil as an oral and topical agent in
two cases of leprosy and reported significant
improvements in an 1854 paper.
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