Ramos José M, Reyes Francisco, Lemma Deriba, Belinchón Isabel, Gomez José R
Gambo General Rural Hospital, Shashemane, Ethiopia.
Trop Doct. 2011 Jan;41(1):51-3. doi: 10.1258/td.2010.100266.
We assessed the epidemiology of disabilities in leprosy cases treated in a rural hospital over a 10-year period. This is a retrospective data collection using leprosy registers and treatment cards in a rural private mission hospital. Over the 10-year period, 210 patients with leprosy were registered for treatment. One hundred and twenty-eight (61.5%) had disabilities (26.0% grade 1 and 35.6% grade 2): 13.5% ocular disabilities, 44.5% disabilities in hands and 44.7% foot impairment. Patients >19 years had more disabilities (66.7% versus 50.7%) (P = 0.03), especially ocular disabilities (16.7% in >20 versus 6.0% in <20 years) (P = 0.03). This study detected a high prevalence of disabilities.
我们评估了一家乡村医院在10年期间治疗的麻风病例中的残疾流行病学情况。这是一项利用一家乡村私立教会医院的麻风病登记册和治疗卡进行的回顾性数据收集。在这10年期间，有210名麻风病患者登记接受治疗。其中128例（61.5%）存在残疾（1级残疾占26.0%，2级残疾占35.6%）：眼部残疾占13.5%，手部残疾占44.5%，足部损伤占44.7%。年龄大于19岁的患者残疾情况更多（66.7%对50.7%）（P = 0.03），尤其是眼部残疾（20岁以上患者中占16.7%，20岁以下患者中占6.0%）（P = 0.03）。本研究发现残疾的患病率很高。
