Hansen's disease in association with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is characterized by a paradoxical worsening of an existing infection or disease process, soon after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The first case of leprosy presenting as immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome was published in 200...

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Autores principales: George, Anju, Vidyadharan, Suja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26955584
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.174305
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description Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is characterized by a paradoxical worsening of an existing infection or disease process, soon after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The first case of leprosy presenting as immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome was published in 2003. Here we report a case of Hansen's disease borderline tuberculoid presenting with type 1 lepra reaction 5 months after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
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spelling pubmed-47635752016-03-07 Hansen's disease in association with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome George, Anju Vidyadharan, Suja Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome is characterized by a paradoxical worsening of an existing infection or disease process, soon after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The first case of leprosy presenting as immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome was published in 2003. Here we report a case of Hansen's disease borderline tuberculoid presenting with type 1 lepra reaction 5 months after initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4763575/ /pubmed/26955584 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.174305 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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