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Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015
BACKGROUND: Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, which contributes 60% of the global leprosy burden, faces some challenges to eliminate the disease, inclu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27885973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32962 |
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author | Muthuvel, Thirumugam Isaakidis, Petros Shewade, Hemant Deepak Kattuppara, Lucy Singh, Rajbir Govindarajulu, Srinivas |
author_facet | Muthuvel, Thirumugam Isaakidis, Petros Shewade, Hemant Deepak Kattuppara, Lucy Singh, Rajbir Govindarajulu, Srinivas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, which contributes 60% of the global leprosy burden, faces some challenges to eliminate the disease, including active transmission in the community and delayed diagnosis of leprosy patients. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were 1) to determine sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of newly diagnosed adults and children (less than 15 years) with leprosy and their trends over time (2008–2015) and 2) to describe the profile of surgical procedures among leprosy patients registered for reconstructive surgeries during 2006–2015. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study was conducted involving a record review of new patients with leprosy registered in Vimala Dermatological Centre, Mumbai. RESULTS: A total of 578 new leprosy cases were registered in the hospital during 2008–2015. There has been a steady increase in the trend of child cases (less than 15 years) registered in the facility (from 3% in 2008 to 18% in 2015), x(2)=12.11, p<0.01. The majority of the patients (68%) were migrants of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. CONCLUSIONS: Targeting children and migrants and ensuring early diagnosis and treatment initiation are essential components for leprosy elimination in an urban metropolis in India. |
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spelling | pubmed-51232102016-12-16 Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 Muthuvel, Thirumugam Isaakidis, Petros Shewade, Hemant Deepak Kattuppara, Lucy Singh, Rajbir Govindarajulu, Srinivas Glob Health Action Short Communication BACKGROUND: Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, which contributes 60% of the global leprosy burden, faces some challenges to eliminate the disease, including active transmission in the community and delayed diagnosis of leprosy patients. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the study were 1) to determine sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of newly diagnosed adults and children (less than 15 years) with leprosy and their trends over time (2008–2015) and 2) to describe the profile of surgical procedures among leprosy patients registered for reconstructive surgeries during 2006–2015. DESIGN: Retrospective descriptive study was conducted involving a record review of new patients with leprosy registered in Vimala Dermatological Centre, Mumbai. RESULTS: A total of 578 new leprosy cases were registered in the hospital during 2008–2015. There has been a steady increase in the trend of child cases (less than 15 years) registered in the facility (from 3% in 2008 to 18% in 2015), x(2)=12.11, p<0.01. The majority of the patients (68%) were migrants of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. CONCLUSIONS: Targeting children and migrants and ensuring early diagnosis and treatment initiation are essential components for leprosy elimination in an urban metropolis in India. Co-Action Publishing 2016-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5123210/ /pubmed/27885973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32962 Text en © 2016 Thirumugam Muthuvel et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Muthuvel, Thirumugam Isaakidis, Petros Shewade, Hemant Deepak Kattuppara, Lucy Singh, Rajbir Govindarajulu, Srinivas Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title | Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title_full | Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title_fullStr | Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title_full_unstemmed | Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title_short | Leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India, from 2008 to 2015 |
title_sort | leprosy trends at a tertiary care hospital in mumbai, india, from 2008 to 2015 |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5123210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27885973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.32962 |
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