%A Sugumararv DST


%T Leprosy reactions - complications of steroid therapy

%0 Journal Article

%D 1998

%J International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases

%P 0148-916X

%V 66

%N 1

%X The adverse effects of corticosteroid therapy while treating 830 patients suffering f rom leprosy reaction (type 1 =581 ; type 2 = 249) are presented. Some of the adverse effects were cosmetically distressing, while others were disabling. Patients suffering f rom type 2 reaction - because of the tendency of the reaction to recur over a long time - needed steroids for a longer duration; hence, adverse effects were more frequent. Measures to counter some of the adverse effects are suggested and the need to identify drugs with potentially less adverse effects is emphasized.