Leprosy - Infectious Dis. - Medbullets Step 2/3

Snapshot
- A 50-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician for a rash. She describes her past year of backpacking throughout the world including multiple areas of Southeast Asia. She states that her face feels thicker than normal and that she has developed a rash throughout her body. On physical exam, she has leonines facies with thickened earlobes, cheeks, and eyebrows. There are also diffuse nodular and plaque-like lesions with hypopigmentation and non-defined borders. She is counselled on the need for long-term antibiotics.

Prognosis
- Slow progression that may develop over months or years
- May have intermittent acute leprosy reactions
- Lepromatous type is more severe

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