Short-course of prednisolone in solitary cysticercus granuloma: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Epilepsia

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1914-1917

  Singla, Monika ^a   Prabhakar, Sudesh ^a   Modi, Manish ^a   Medhi, Bikash ^b   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^a   Lal, Vivek ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Pharmacology ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Neurocysticercosis; Prednisolone; Seizures; Solitary cysticercus granuloma

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOLITARY CYSTICERCUS GRANULOMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PREDNISOLONE; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053576114     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2011.03184.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Baranwal AK, Singhi PD, Khandelwal N, Singhi SC,. (1998) Albendazole therapy in children with focal seizures and single small enhancing computerized tomographic lesions: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind trial. Pediatr Infect Dis J 17: 696-700. (Pubitemid 28388158)
2. Del Brutto OH,. (1995) Single parenchymal brain cysticercus in the acute encephalitic phase: definition of a distinct form of neurocysticercosis with a benign prognosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 58: 247-249.
3. Del Brutto OH, Roos KL, Coffey CS, Garcia HH,. (2006) Meta-analysis: cysticidal drugs for neurocysticercosis: albendazole and praziquantel. Ann Intern Med 145: 43-51. (Pubitemid 46780606)
4. Garcia HH, Del Brutto OH,. (2005) Neurocysticercosis: updated concepts about an old disease. Lancet Neurol 4: 653-661. (Pubitemid 41317300)
5. Garg RK, Potluri N, Kar AM, Singh MK, Shukla R, Agrawal A, Verma R,. (2006) Short course of prednisolone in patients with solitary cysticercus granuloma: a double blind placebo controlled study. J Infect 53: 65-69. (Pubitemid 43960437)
6. Gogia S, Talukdar B, Choudhury V, Arora BS,. (2003) Neurocysticercosis in children: clinical findings and response to albendazole therapy in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in newly diagnosed cases. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 97: 416-421. (Pubitemid 39186023)
7. Kalra V, Dua T, Kumar V,. (2003) Efficacy of albendazole and short-course dexamethasone treatment in children with 1 or 2 ring-enhancing lesions of neurocysticercosis: a randomized controlled trial. J Pediatr 143: 111-114. (Pubitemid 36928577)
8. Kishore D, Misra S,. (2007) Short course of oral prednisolone on disappearance of lesion and seizure recurrence in patients of solitary cysticercal granuloma with single small enhancing CT lesion: an open label randomized prospective study. J Assoc Physicians India 55: 419-424.
9. Mall RK, Agarwal A, Garg RK, Kar AM, Shukla R,. (2003) Short course of prednisolone in Indian patients with solitary cysticercus granuloma and new-onset seizures. Epilepsia 44: 1397-1401. (Pubitemid 37385847)
10. Mitchell WG, Crawford TO,. (1988) Intraparenchymal cerebral cysticercosis in children: diagnosis and treatment. Pediatrics 82: 76-82.
11. Nash TE, Singh G, White AC, Rajshekhar V, Loeb JA, Proano JV, Takayanagui OM, Gonzalez AE, Butman JA, DeGiorgio C, Del Brutto OH, Delgado-Escueta A, Evans CA, Gilman RH, Martinez SM, Medina MT, Pretell EJ, Teale J, Garcia HH,. (2006) Treatment of neurocysticercosis: current status and future research needs. Neurology 67: 1120-1127. (Pubitemid 44563815)
12. Padma MV, Behari M, Misra NK, Ahuja GK,. (1994) Albendazole in single CT ring lesions in epilepsy. Neurology 44: 1344-1346. (Pubitemid 24232245)
13. Prakash S, Garg RK, Kar AM, Shukla R, Agarwal A, Verma R, Singh MK,. (2006) Intravenous methyl prednisolone in patients with solitary cysticercus granuloma: a random evaluation. Seizure 15: 328-332. (Pubitemid 43812245)
14. Rajshekhar V,. (1991) Etiology and management of single small CT lesions in patients with seizures: understanding a controversy. Acta Neurol Scand 84: 465-470.
15. Singh G, Singh P, Singh I, Rani A, Kaushal S, Avasthi G,. (2006) Epidemiologic classification of seizures associated with neurocysticercosis: observations from a sample of seizure disorders in neurologic care in India. Acta Neurol Scand 113: 233-240. (Pubitemid 43382596)