Leprosy
Mailing List – January 28th, 2010
Ref.: Medical-legal
complications regarding clofazimine in the
USA
From:
Terence
Ryan,
Oxford
,
UK
Dear
Salvatore,
I
refer to Scollard’s message dated LML Jan. 25th, 2010.
Medical Legal issues are one of the major inhibitions to best
practice. I am gradually
attempting to identify these, Could David Scollard give us a fuller
account of the complications he refers to?
Which
prevent prescribing clofazimine? All
drugs have some side effects (including tetracyclines) and those for
clofazimine are known to us all and furthermore lawyers are
active everywhere. But,
is he referring to something unique to his country?
He
is right about the anti-inflammatory effects of tetracyclines, widely
used by dermatologists but not mentioned in data sheets and
lacking randomized clinical trials.
Terence
Ryan
