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Hansen's disease : a complete clinical guide / Patrc̕ia D. Deps, editor.

Deps, Patrc̕ia, editor.
2023
RC154
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Title
Hansen's disease : a complete clinical guide / Patrc̕ia D. Deps, editor.
ISBN
9783031308932 (electronic bk.)
303130893X (electronic bk.)
3031308921
9783031308925
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30893-2
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
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English
Description
1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
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10.1007/978-3-031-30893-2 doi
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RC154
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.99/8
Summary
Hansens disease (leprosy) is endemic in more than 100 countries worldwide, with over 200,000 new diagnoses each year and more than 4 million people living with some form of HD-related impairment. The World Health Organizations Global Leprosy Strategy timeline for Hansens disease elimination indicates that it will be encountered in clinical practice in endemic countries for at least another decade. Increasing north-to-south migration, global travel and overseas medical work mean that physicians in non-endemic countries will also encounter patients with Hansens disease, which can affect people for many years before diagnosis and after treatment. For busy clinicians, it represents a challenge, in terms of disease learning and updating knowledge and skills. This book provides a concise, up-to-date, and comprehensive source of information on Hansens disease clinical practice. It covers essential topics on all clinical aspects, complemented by history, epidemiology, paleopathology, and the social impact of the disease. Edited and written by contributors with decades of experience, its divided into twenty-six chapters clarifying the genetics and neurological manifestations, physical disabilities and its prevention; oral, ophthalmological, and bone changes, among others. For the primary audience of practicing physicians, it is an affordable point of reference, whilst also being suitable for student and trainee doctors. Its also accessible to general practitioners and specialists in dermatology, neurology, pediatrics, infectious disease, family and community medicine, and orthopedics, as well as to non-specialists and other healthcare professionals.
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References -- Hansen's Disease and One Health -- 1 Animal Hosts and Zoonotic Transmission -- 2 Environmental Reservoirs and Insect Vectors -- 3 Implications for Policy and Practice -- References -- Metabolic, Genetic and Immunological Mechanisms in Susceptibility to Leprosy -- 1 Immune Activation in Disease Progression -- 2 Control of Metabolic and Immune Regulation Towards Susceptibility to Infection -- 2.1 Activation of Autophagy in Resistance and Susceptibility -- 3 Subversion Mechanisms -- 3.1 Type I IFN Pathway -- 3.2 Nutritional Immunity, Tryptophan Metabolism, IDO, and Kynurenines
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Hansens disease
Chapter 2: The journey to a scientific understanding of leprosy: a brief outline
Chapter 3: The origin, evolution and history of leprosy through a paleopathological lens
Chapter 4: Hansens disease and Human Rights
Chapter 5: Leprosy agents and principal methods of detection, identification and characterization of the leprosy agents
Chapter 6: Epidemiology of Hansens Disease
Chapter 7: Hansens Disease and One Health
Chapter 8: Metabolic, genetic and immunological mechanisms in susceptibility to leprosy
Chapter 9: Clinical aspects and classification of Hansens disease
Chapter 10: Reaction in Hansens disease
Chapter 11: Hansens disease in children
Chapter 12: Neuropathophysiology in Hansens disease: mechanisms of nerve injury
Chapter 13: Neurological manifestations
Chapter 14: Evaluation, monitoring, and prevention of disabilities in Hansens disease
Chapter 15: Ophthalmological alterations in Hansens disease
Chapter 16: Ear, nose, throat and mouth alterations in Hansens disease
Chapter 17: Osteoarticular alterations in Hansens disease
Chapter 18: Diagnostic Imaging in Hansens Disease: Conventional Radiography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry
Chapter 19: Coinfection and immunosuppression in Hansens disease
Chapter 20: Differential diagnosis of cutaneous lesions of Hansens disease
Chapter 21: Differential diagnoses of the neurological manifestations of Hansens disease
Chapter 22: Immune and Chemoprophylaxis in Hansens disease
Chapter 23: Psychosocial aspects of Hansens diseases
Chapter 24: Peripheral Nerve by Ultrasound in Hansens Disease
Chapter 25: Electroneuromyography in Hansens Disease
Chapter 26: Treatment of Hansens disease.

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