Finding undiagnosed leprosy cases

Notes on Two Cases of Undiagnosed Fever

Undiagnosed diabetes in kidney transplant candidates: a case-finding strategy.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Guidelines recommend that candidates for kidney transplantation (KTx) who do not have diabetes perform a pretransplantation oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) when fasting plasma glucose (FPG) is <110 mg/dl (<6.1 mmol/L); however, the OGTT is potentially costly and cumbersome. We studied the role of the OGTT for diagnosing diabetes and the accuracy of FPG and glycated ...

Finding undiagnosed type 2 diabetes: is it worth the effort?

In this issue of ecp, O’Connor and colleagues 1 evaluate a strategy for finding undiagnosed diabetes mellitus within an HMO population. They identified patients with dyslipidemia and hypertension from their health information database and then did a clinic-based, random, plasma-glucose measurement test. Their yield of new patients was rather low (about 1% of the targeted population [5/469]), a ...

Two Cases of Leprosy Successfully Treated

The case was one of the mixed variety; he had crooked fingers, a little thickening of the lobes of the ears in which leprosy bacilli were found, superficial anaesthesia of the legs almost up to the knees and of the forearm's and hands all round, and swelling of the ankles. General health?poor, almost emaciated, and unable to do any work. No family history of contact, but he had been in prolonge...

Leprosy Cases in the British Isles.

At the request of the MedicaI Committee of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association a subcommittee consisting of the three of us have carried out an inquiry into the number of leprosy cases seen during the last thirty years by derniatologists in all parts of the country. The following is an analysis of replies received to a circular letter which enclosed forms ' to cover the required infor...