ArticleBMJ case reports2012
Leprosy and rheumatoid arthritis: consequence or association?
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- Leprosy detection rate in patients under immunosuppression for the treatment of dermatological, rheumatological, and gastroenterological diseases: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Lepromatous leprosy presenting with chronic painless ulcers and inflammatory arthropathy: a case report from a non-endemic setting.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- An Infectious Disease Mimicking Rheumatologic Disease in an Adolescent.Clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
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- Hansen's Disease, the Perpetual Impersonator ("The Behroopiya") of Rheumatology Practice: A Case Series.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2023Article
- Hansen's disease masquerading as rheumatoid arthritis: A case report.Clinical case reports · 2022Article
- Leprosy-Related Chronic Arthritis with an Abundance ofInternational medical case reports journal · 2021Article
- Extensor plaques with associated arthritis and neuropathy.JAAD case reports · 2020Article
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- Hansen's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis Crossover of Clinical Symptoms: A Case Series of 18 Patients in the United States.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2017Article
- Mycobacterium lepromatosis Lepromatous Leprosy in US Citizen Who Traveled to Disease-Endemic Areas.Emerging infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Leprosy mimicking common rheumatologic entities: a trial for the clinician in the era of biologics.Case reports in rheumatology · 2014Article
- Case of arthritis secondary to leprosy.SpringerPlus · 2014Article
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Abstract
Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic granulomatous infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae with a high prevalence in some developing countries however, it is rarely seen in non-endemic regions. Arthritis has been described in all types of Hansen's disease. Chronic arthritis is known to exist even in paucibacillary forms, resolved or treated disease and in patients without reaction, suggesting a perpetuated inflammatory process. In these cases leprosy can mimic some autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. When a patient with a history of leprosy presents with a symmetric, distal, polyarthritis the diagnosis may not be linear. Possibly it is a rheumatoid-like leprous arthritis with M leprae acting as the trigger element for the chronic process or it is an overlap condition, with a concomitant rheumatoid arthritis? A case report of a patient with a chronic inflammatory arthritis with 10 years of evolution is presented. The differential diagnosis between leprous and rheumatoid arthritis is discussed.
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