(LML) Patient with severe adverse effects due to steroids

Leprosy Mailing List – August 27,  2018 

Ref.:    (LML) Patient with severe adverse effects due to steroids

From:  Ben Naafs, Munnekeburen, the Netherlands

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Dear Pieter,

I advise too, if dr Ramesh has access to it, to use cyclosporin.

Otherwise he could use azathioprine but that has to be combined with a low dose of steroids, thus less side effects.

Some described effects from MTX. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 45, Issue 1, 1 July 2007, Pages e7–e9, https://doi.org/10.1086/518699 .

According to me the one who advised to use clofazimine for type I reaction was dr Imkamp from South- Africa. In the seventies in ALERT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we tried it and it had no effect. That time only dapsone monotherapy was used and we explained our lack of effect when giving clofazimine to an effective treated patient who was not dapsone resistant, while Imkamp may have treated dapsone resistant patients. After that time occasional reports appeared but non convincing.

With regards,

Ben

 

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