RESUMO
The authors present their experience in the use of the JESS (Joshi External Stabilising System) for correction of proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP joint) contracture deformity in 68 fingers. The use of the JESS has made this surgery easier, faster in releasing contractures and it has given better correction than the methods so far used by the same authors, like capsulotomy, local flaps and free skin grafting. The procedure is simple and has no serious side effects; it can be repeated if need be. The JESS is easy to apply, economical, reliable, reusable, well accepted by the patient. Compared to the other distractors made in USA and Europe, the JESS has an added advantage in that it costs so very much less (US $5-10), that our leprosy hospitals can afford it. In our patients, we have achieved full extension in 75% and good extension in 10.3% of the cases. These figures are much better than what was possible, in the past, with local flaps and free skin grafting. With those procedures we had excellent results in only 53% of the cases and poor result in 28%.
Assuntos
Contratura/terapia , Fixadores Externos , Articulações dos Dedos , Hanseníase/complicações , Adolescente , Adulto , Contratura/etiologia , Contratura/cirurgia , Fixadores Externos/normas , Dedos/cirurgia , Deformidades Adquiridas da Mão/cirurgia , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Transplante de PeleAssuntos
Banhos/efeitos adversos , Hanseníase/terapia , Ceras/uso terapêutico , Contratura/terapia , Mãos , Humanos , HidroterapiaRESUMO
The reactional states seen in lepromatous form (Erythema nodosum, exacerbation) and in interpolar forms (tuberculoid exacerbation and tuberculoid reversal reaction) result in cutaneous, nervous, lymphatic, visceral and polvarhritic acute manifestations. The successif relapses result in articular, cutaneous and muscular, sequelae of the hand but a paralysis of medial and ulnar nerves, often associated with leprosy, make them different from rheumatoid arthritis. They can be summarized thus: 1. Fexed claws hand associated with stiffness, erosions and sometimes subluxations of interphalangeal joints, mainly proximal and metacarpophalangeal joints. 2. Thickening and retractions of the skin of the dorsal face of the hand resulting in a trouble of the flexion of the fingers. 3. Contracture of the intrinsic muscles of the fingers and swan neck deformity. The treatment of the articular acute manifestations prevents the formation of sequelae. The authors study also the possibility of a curative treatment of fixed claws hand, skin retractions and swan neck deformities of the fingers, in hansenian patients