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KUTANÖZ LEİSHMANİASİSİN NADİR VARYANTI: ERİZİPELOİD LEİSHMANİASİS

UNUSUAL CLINICAL VARIANT OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS: ERYSIPELOID LEISHMANIASIS

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315–318
Publication Date
2022-11-05
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Regional and international health organizations should be aware of this problem and support the fight against this disease accordingly.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Although cutaneous leishmaniasis was an important health problem in the Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey before the 1950s, it was effectively controlled by successful health policies thereafter.
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Key Findings & Data:Classical clinical presantation of cutaneous leishmainasis is the painless erytemaotus papules or nodules developed in the areas of infected sandfly bite which are ulcerated andhealed gradually with a scar formation. cutaneous leishmaniasis can be presented in its atypicalforms as well, such as zosteriform, sporotrichoid, psoriasiform, chancriform, paronychial cutaneous leishmaniasis.
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Conclusion & Impact:Regional and international health organizations should be aware of this problem and support the fight against this disease accordingly.
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Abstract

Although cutaneous leishmaniasis was an important health problem in the Southeast Anatolia region of Turkey before the 1950s, it was effectively controlled by successful health policies thereafter. Classical clinical presantation of cutaneous leishmainasis is the painless erytemaotus papules or nodules developed in the areas of infected sandfly bite which are ulcerated andhealed gradually with a scar formation. cutaneous leishmaniasis can be presented in its atypicalforms as well, such as zosteriform, sporotrichoid, psoriasiform, chancriform, paronychial cutaneous leishmaniasis. In this case report, we present a 67 years old women with erysipeloid cutaneous leishmaniasis, a rare atypical form of cutaneous leishmaniasis, who was succesfully treated.Cutaneous leishmaniasis is an increasing health problem in Middle Eastarn countries and countries receiving refugees nowadays. Regional and international health organizations should be aware of this problem and support the fight against this disease accordingly.

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Türkiye'nin Güneydoğu Anadolu bölgesinde 1950 yılları öncesinde endemik olarak görülen kutanöz leishmanisis baflarılı sağlık politikaları sayesinde bu tarihten sonra etkin olarak kontrol altına alınabilmifltir. Kutanöz leishmaniasis klasik olarak tatarcık sineğinin soktuğu alanda geliflenağrısız papül ve nodüler lezyonların ülsere olup daha sonrasında skar dokusu bırakarak iyileflmesi ile karakterizedir. Kutanöz leishmaniasis zosteriform, sporotrikoid, psöriaziform, flankriform, paroniflyal gibi atipik klinik tablolarla da karflımıza çıkabilmektedir. Bu olgu sunumunda atipik kutanöz leishmanisisin nadir görülen alt tiplerinden olan erizipeloid leishmaniasis tanısı alarak baflarılıflekilde tedavisi tamamlanan 67 yaflında kadın hasta sunulmaktadır. Kutanöz leishmanisis orta doğu ülkeleri ve göç alan komflu ülkelerde önemli bir sağlık problemi olarak son yıllarda karflımızaçıkmaktadır. Bölgesel ve uluslararası sağlık örgütlerinin, artan bu sağlık probleminden haberdarolup hastalıkla mücadelede desteklerini artırmaları gerekmektedir.

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ÖKTEM, A., GÜR, G., GENÇ, İ., YALÇIN, B. (2022). KUTANÖZ LEİSHMANİASİSİN NADİR VARYANTI: ERİZİPELOİD LEİSHMANİASİS. Türk Geriatri Dergisi, Cilt: 18 - Sayı: 4, 315–318. https://ajindex.com/articles/623807

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