ABSTRACT
El compromiso de los órganos genitales masculinos en la lepra, se observa con mayor frecuencia en el transcurso de los cuadros reaccionales. Sin embargo, fuera de estos episodios agudos, la piel y mucosa de los genitales externos pueden estar comprometidas por lesiones específicas. Se comunica el caso de un paciente hanseniano que recidivó, lepromatoso con lesiones infiltradas y nodulares en prepucio y lóbulo auricular, como únicas manifestaciones de la enfermedad.
The involvement of male genitals in leprosy appears more frecuently in the immunologic reactions. Although, the genital skin and mucous can be affected, by specific lesions too. We report a case of relapsed lepromatous leprosy with infiltrated lesions and nodules in prepuce and earlobe as the only disease manifestation.
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Humans , Male , Aged, 80 and over , Leprosy, Lepromatous/diagnosis , Leprosy, Lepromatous/drug therapy , Genitalia, Male/pathology , Leprosy, Multibacillary/microbiology , Skin ManifestationsABSTRACT
The case of a male patient diagnosed to have lepromatous leprosy with type 2 reaction on multibacillary multidrug therapy, with unusual, widespread involvement of genitalia in the form of plaque and nodules of leprosy over scrotum and perimeatal region of glans, necrotic lesions of erythema nodosum leprosum over scrotum, neuritis of genital branch of genitofemoral nerve bilaterally, and azoospermia, is reported.
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Genitalia, Male/pathology , Leprosy, Lepromatous/pathology , Humans , Leprostatic Agents/therapeutic use , Leprosy, Lepromatous/drug therapy , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Since more than a decade ago, we have attempted to develop spontaneously hypertensive rats carrying the nude gene that permits high multiplication of Mycobacterium leprae. A congenic strain carrying nude (rnu) and hypertensive genes was produced using SHR/NCrj females and F344/NJcl-rnu males. Cross-intercross was carried out 12 times to establish the hypertensive nude rat congenic strain. As a result of the genetic monitoring test with NE12F2 generation rats, the genetic profile of the SHR/NCrj-rnu rats was the same as that of the SHR/NCrj rats except for the rnu gene. We have successfully developed a hypertensive congenic nude rat strain (SHR.F344Hfh11; SHR/NCrj-rnu). An increase in the blood pressure in nude rats was found to begin at a slightly delayed age when compared with their hairy litter mates. Both female and male rats showed the highest blood pressure at approximately 20 weeks of age--166 +/- 1.4 and 197 +/- 11 mm Hg in nude rats and 175 +/- 11 and 193 +/- 3.2 mm Hg in their hairy litter mates in female and male rats, respectively. In the present study, comparisons were made on the susceptibility to M. leprae in hypertensive SHR/NCrj-rnu and normotensive F344/NJcl-rnu rats. We have reconfirmed that hypertensive SHR/NCrj-rnu rats of the NE12F3 generation were highly susceptible to M. leprae. In the SHR/NCrj-rnu rats of both sexes excellent massive swelling due to multiplication of M. leprae was observed and, also, nodular lesions were produced in uninoculated fore feet and lips while those sites in the F344/NJcl-rnu rats showed only a slight swelling of the inoculated feet with mild nodular lesions. Although mild lymphocyte proliferation was seen only in the M. leprae-inoculated site with numerous bacilli and partial necrosis in the SHR/NCrj-rnu rats, at noninoculated sites, multiplication of M. leprae was only observed in the cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system. However, in F344/NJcl-rnu rats, lymphocyte proliferation with a few neutrophils was seen at the site of inoculated hind foot pads and everywhere at the site of multiplication of M. leprae. There was a wide difference in the susceptibility to M. leprae between the SHR/NCrj-rnu and the F344/NJcl-rnu rats.
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Disease Models, Animal , Leprosy, Lepromatous , Rats, Inbred SHR , Rats, Nude , Age Factors , Animals , Blood Pressure , Crosses, Genetic , Disease Susceptibility , Female , Genitalia, Male/pathology , Hindlimb/pathology , Inbreeding , Male , RatsABSTRACT
An adult male with atypical lesions of post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is described. He had extensive ulcerated noduloplaque lesions on his hands, feet and genitalia. He had been diagnosed and treated for leprosy in the past. He came from an area endemic for kala-azar and leprosy and had a previous history of kala-azar. There was an abundance of Leishman Donovan bodies in slitskin smears and in histopathology sections. There was a good therapeutic response to sodium stibogluconate. An ulcerative variant of PKDL has been described but is extremely rare. Extensive lesions with ulceration have not been described before to the best of our knowledge. The epidemiological significance of the case is discussed.
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Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous/diagnosis , Leprosy, Lepromatous/diagnosis , Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Foot/pathology , Genitalia, Male/pathology , Hand/pathology , Humans , Male , Skin/pathologyABSTRACT
The cutaneous lesions of leprosy on male genitalia were studied. They were found in 2.9% of cases examined in this series. They were seen most commonly in borderline group. It is emphasised that it is not uncommon to find lesions on male genitalia in leprosy.