Leprosy

A chronic infectious disease affecting primarily the skin and peripheral nervous system.

Headache

Cephalgia, or pain sensed in various parts of the head, not confined to the area of distribution of any nerve.


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PMID (PMCID)
23720896
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Is there a relation between hemicrania continua and leprosy?
Ferreira KS, Freitas DJ, Speciali JG.
Indian J Lepr. 2012;84(4):317-20.
At the same time, she reported new headaches, daily and continuous, without pain-free periods, unilateral (which were located in the same side of the leprosy lesion in face), throbbing and severe (VAS = 8) with ipsilateral conjuntival injection and lacrimation that improved with indomethacin.
23720896
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Is there a relation between hemicrania continua and leprosy?
Ferreira KS, Freitas DJ, Speciali JG.
Indian J Lepr. 2012;84(4):317-20.
The objective of this study is to report one case of headache fulfilling the IHS criteria for HC, presented during the course of leprosy.
23720896
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Is there a relation between hemicrania continua and leprosy?
Ferreira KS, Freitas DJ, Speciali JG.
Indian J Lepr. 2012;84(4):317-20.
Hemicrania continua is a strictly unilateral, moderate to severe, continuous, indomethacin-responsive primary headache with autonomic cranial symptoms and leprosy is an usual cause of peripheral neuropathy.
18479424
 FEMALE Adult
Hemicrania continua-like headache with leprosy: casual or causal association?
Prakash S, Dholakia SY.
Headache. 2008;48(7):1132-4.
We describe a 30-year-old woman with a 4-month history of indomethacin-responsive hemicrania continua-like headache and one-month history of mononeuritis multiplex due to leprosy.
18479424
 FEMALE Adult
Hemicrania continua-like headache with leprosy: casual or causal association?
Prakash S, Dholakia SY.
Headache. 2008;48(7):1132-4.
Hemicrania continua-like headache with leprosy: casual or causal association?
28128107
 OTHER
Dapsone Induced Methaemoglobinemia.
Satish DA, Nagabhushana NR, Sumathy TK, Padmavathy L.
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 1989;55(2):123-125.
A 33 old I female developed methaemoglobinemia manifesting as cyanosis fatigue, malaise and headache 3 weeks after being put on l00 mg of dapsone daily for borderline - tuberculoid leprosy.
3195622
 MALE Middle Aged
Case report: dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome associated with treatment of the bite of a brown recluse spider.
Wille RC, Morrow JD.
Am J Med Sci. 1988;296(4):270-1.
A dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome, consisting of fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, lymphadenopathy, hepatitis, hemolysis, leukopenia, and mononucleosis, has been described in patients treated with the drug for leprosy.