Revista Gestão & Saúde (Sep 2013)

EPIDEMIOLOGIC PROFILE OF PATIENTS NOTIFIED WITH HANSENÍASE IN THE NORTH OF MINAS GERAIS

  • Patrick Leonardo Nogueira da Silva,
  • Rosângela Barbosa Chagas,
  • Cláudia Mendes Campos Versiani ,
  • Ludmila Pereira Macedo ,
  • Luciana Maria Lauar de Almeida,
  • Anderson Geraldo dos Santos,
  • Rafael Majuste

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 3
pp. 896 – 903

Abstract

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This study aims to identify the epidemiological profile of patients with leprosy reported in the city of Montes Claros/MG. This is a documentary research, cross sectional, descriptive and quantitative. Was conducted at the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance of the Municipal Health Montes Claros/MG. Of the 694 patients reported with leprosy, most were male (53.6%), aged between 35-49 years (27.8%), brown (50.5%), and living in urban (88.9%). Regarding the clinical, 58.9% did not apply to the condition of pregnant women, 54.7% with more than 05 skin lesions, 85.5% had no nerves affected by the disease, and the prevalence of borderline form of the bacillus (56%). In terms of laboratory and therapeutic aspects, of the patients who underwent smear the majority was negative (10.7%), 88.3% used as the initial therapeutic regimen PQT/MB/6D. We conclude, therefore, that the disease was prevalent in young adult males residing in urban areas showing a significant amount of diffuse cutaneous lesions without involvement of motor nerves and effectiveness of treatment provided.

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