Leprosy and the peripheral nervous system: basic and clinical aspects

Muscle & Nerve
Winnie W Ooi, Jayashri Srinivasan

Abstract

Leprosy is one of the most common causes of nontraumatic peripheral neuropathy in the developing world. The causative agent, Mycobacterium leprae, has a predilection for Schwann cells, where the organism multiplies unimpeded by organism-specific host immunity, resulting in destruction of myelin, secondary inflammatory changes, and destruction of the nerve architecture. The cardinal diagnostic features of leprosy are anesthetic skin lesions, neuropathy, and positive skin smears for the bacilli. However, patients may rarely present without skin lesions in pure neuritic leprosy. Electrodiagnostic findings early in the disease reveal demyelinating features, such as slowing of conduction velocity and prolongation of latencies, but as the disease progresses secondary axonal damage commonly ensues. Electrodiagnostic studies are also useful to monitor for toxicity secondary to therapy, particularly thalidomide-associated neuropathy. Nerve biopsy of a sensory cutaneous nerve is sometimes essential to confirm a diagnosis of leprosy. Significant advances in understanding of the pathogenesis, mapping of the genome, and other advances in molecular biology may result in better preventive and therapeutic modalities, and the goal of eradicatin...Continue Reading

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