Clinical complications of lepra reactions: An in-patient experience from Pakistan

Introduction: The World Health Organization stated the global prevalence of leprosy as 176,176 cases at the end of 2015. Leprosy is an incapacitating infectious disease primarily affecting the skin and peripheral nerves. Immunologic complications of leprosy occur as immune-mediated lepra reactions type 1 and 2. These reactions remain a diagnostic dilemma for many physicians, dermatologists and neurologists. Despite the success of multidrug therapy these reactions cause considerable morbidity and physical disabilities by nerve damage.