<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Poland is an imported disease mainly occurring in tourists who travelled to tropical countries. Cutaneous symptoms occur as late as between ten and twenty days following the return from the tropics. Lesions connected with cutaneous leishmaniasis were most commonly diagnosed by Polish doctors as furuncle, ecthyma or ulceration and ineffectively treated for several weeks with antibiotics.</p><p>The paper presents the case of leishmaniasis in a 30-year-old male with an ulceration of the left shank, ineffectively treated with antibiotics over a period of four months. The ulceration was healed completely only after leishmaniasis was diagnosed and following the application of a treatment based on antimony derivatives, followed by hyperbaric oxygenation performed in a hyperbaric chamber.</p></abstract>

Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Poland is an imported disease mainly occurring in tourists who travelled to tropical countries. Cutaneous symptoms occur as late as between ten and twenty days following the return from the tropics. Lesions connected with cutaneous leishmaniasis were most commonly diagnosed by Polish doctors as furuncle, ecthyma or ulceration and ineffectively treated for several weeks with antibiotics.The paper presents the case of leishmaniasis in a 30-year-old male with an ulceration of the left shank, ineffectively treated with antibiotics over a period of four months. The ulceration was healed completely only after leishmaniasis was diagnosed and following the application of a treatment based on antimony derivatives, followed by hyperbaric oxygenation performed in a hyperbaric chamber.

A Case of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Maritime & Hyperbaric Medicine Department, Military Institute of Medicine, Gdynia,

Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical University in Lublin,

Polish Hyperbaric Research

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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Poland is an imported disease mainly occurring in tourists who travelled to tropical countries. Cutaneous symptoms occur as late as...

A Case of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Publié en ligne: 14 mars 2017

Pages: 39 - 41

Reçu: 12 avr. 2015

Accepté: 09 sept. 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2016-0024

Mots clés
leishmaniasis, antimony, hyperbaric oxygenation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Case of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Publié en ligne: 14 mars 2017

Pages: 39 - 41

Reçu: 12 avr. 2015

Accepté: 09 sept. 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2016-0024

Mots clésleishmaniasis, antimony, hyperbaric oxygenation

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
leishmaniasis, antimony, hyperbaric oxygenation