Neurocysticercosis: A review

TheScientificWorldJournal

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,b  

^a HospitalClinica Kennedy ^*  (Ecuador)

^b Air Center 3542   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

BRAIN INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTICERCUS (CESTODE LARVA); ETIOLOGY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; TAENIA SOLIUM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS;

SUIDAE; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURES; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 84856389108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/2012/159821     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Del Brutto O. H., Santibaez R., Idrovo L., Rodrguez S., Daz-Caldern E., Navas C., Gilman R. H., Cuesta F., Mosquera A., Gonzalez A. E., Tsang V. C. W., Garca H. H., Epilepsy and neurocysticercosis in Atahualpa: a door-to-door survey in rural coastal Ecuador Epilepsia 2005 46 4 583 587 (Pubitemid 40470684)
2. Medina M. T., Duron R. M., Martinez L., Prevalence, incidence, and etioloy of epilepsies in rural Honduras: the Salama study Epilepsia 2005 46 124 131
3. Montano S. M., Villaran M. V., Ylquimiche L., Figueroa J. J., Rodriguez S., Bautista C. T., Gonzalez A. E., Tsang V. C. W., Gilman R. H., Garcia H. H., Neurocysticercosis: association between seizures, serology, and brain CT in rural Peru Neurology 2005 65 2 229 234 (Pubitemid 41022366)
4. Fleury A., Garca J. M., Aguerrebere P. V., de Sayve Durn M., Rodrguez P. B., Larralde C., Sciutto E., Neurocysticercosis, a persisting health problem in Mexico PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2010 4 8, article e805
5. White A. C. Jr., Neurocysticercosis: updates on epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management Annual Review of Medicine 2000 51 187 206
6. Ms-Sesé G., Vives-Piera I., Fernndez-Barreiro A., Martnez-Lage J. F., Martnez-Salcedo E., Alarcn-Martnez H., Domingo-Jiménez R., Puche-Mira A., Casas-Fernndez C., Estudio descriptivo de neurocisticercosis en un hospital terciario Revista de Neurologia 2008 46 4 194 196 (Pubitemid 351413972)
7. Serpa J. A., Graviss E. A., Kass J. S., White A. C., Neurocysticercosis in Houston, Texas: an update Medicine 2011 90 1 81 86
8. Sorvillo F., Wilkins P., Shafir S., Eberhard M., Public health implications of cysticercosis acquired in the United States Emerging Infectious Diseases 2011 17 1 1 6
9. Del Brutto O. H., Sotelo J., Romn G., Neurocysticercosis: A Clinical Handbook 1988 Lisse, The Netherlands Swets Zeitlinger
10. Gonzalez A. E., Lopez-Urbina T., Tsang B., Gavidia C., Garcia H. H., Silva M. E., Ramos D. D., Manzanedo R., Sanchez-Hidalgo L., Gilman R. H., Tsang V. C. W., Transmission dynamics of Taenia solium and potential for pig-to-pig transmission Parasitology International 2006 55 S131 S135
11. Willms K., Morphology and biochemistry of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2008 8 5 375 382 (Pubitemid 351791015)
12. Escobar A., Weidenheim K. M., Singh G., Prabhakar S., The pathology of neurocysticercosis Taenia Solium Cysticercosis. From Basic to Clinical Science 2002 Oxon, UK CAB International 289 305
13. Pittella J. E. H., Neurocysticercosis Brain Pathology 1997 7 1 681 693 (Pubitemid 27077061)
14. Del Brutto O. H., Caplan L. R., Stroke and vasculitis in patients with cysticercosis Uncommon Causes of Stroke 2008 New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 53 58
15. Flisser A., Correa D., Evans C. A. W., Taenia Solium Cysticercosis. From Basic to Clinical Science 2002 Oxon, UK CAB International edited by G. Singh and S. Prabhakar
16. Del Brutto O. H., Castillo P. R., Mena I. X., Freire A. X., Neurocysticercosis among patients with cerebral gliomas Archives of Neurology 1997 54 9 1125 1128 (Pubitemid 27396480)
17. Del Brutto O. H., Dolezal M., Castillo P. R., Garca H. H., Neurocysticercosis and oncogenesis Archives of Medical Research 2000 31 2 151 155 (Pubitemid 30392350)
18. Del Brutto O. H., Santibez R., Noboa C. A., Aguirre R., Diaz E., Alarcon T. A., Epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis: analysis of 203 patients Neurology 1992 42 2 389 392
19. Garcia H. H., Del Brutto O. H., Neurocysticercosis: updated concepts about an old disease The Lancet Neurology 2005 4 10 653 661 (Pubitemid 41317300)
20. Nash T. E., Del Brutto O. H., Butman J. A., Calcified neurocysticercosis and epileptoenesis Neuroloy 2004 62 1934 1938
21. Nash T. E., Pretell E. J., Lescano A. G., Bustos J. A., Gilman R. H., Gonzalez A. E., Garcia H. H., Perilesional brain oedema and seizure activity in patients with calcified neurocysticercosis: a prospective cohort and nested case-control study The Lancet Neurology 2008 7 12 1099 1105
22. Fleury A., Carrillo-Mezo R., Flisser A., Sciutto E., Corona T., Subarachnoid basal neurocysticercosis: a focus on the most severe form of the disease Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy 2011 9 1 123 133
23. Rangel R., Torres B., Del Bruto O., Sotelo J., Cysticercotic encephalitis: a severe form in young females American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1987 36 2 387 392 (Pubitemid 17057543)
24. Forlenza O., Vieira A. H., Nobrea J. P. S., Psychiatric manifestations in neurocysticercosis: a study of 38 patients from a neurologic clinics in Brazil Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 1997 62 612 616 (Pubitemid 27281265)
25. Nieto D., Flisser A., Willms K., Laclete J. P., Larralde C., Ridaura C., Beltrn F., Historical notes on cysticercosis Cysticercosis: Present State of Knowledge and Perspectives 1982 New York, NY, USA Academic Press 1 7
26. Del Brutto O. H., Guevara J., Sotelo J., Intrasellar cysticercosis Journal of Neurosurgery 1988 69 1 58 60
27. Alsina G. A., Johnson J. P., McBride D. Q., Rhoten P. R., Mehringer C. M., Stokes J. K., Spinal neurocysticercosis Neurosurgical Focus 2002 12 6 e8
28. Madiubba S., Vishwanath K., Reddy G., Chaning trends in ocular cysticercosis over two decades: an analysis of 118 surgically excised cysts Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2007 25 214 219 (Pubitemid 47509380)
29. Wadia N., Desai S., Bhatt M., Disseminated cysticercosis. New observations, including CT scan findings and experience with treatment by praziquantel Brain 1988 111 3 597 614
30. Garca H. H., Del Brutto O. H., Imaging findings in neurocysticercosis Acta Tropica 2003 87 1 71 78 (Pubitemid 36629485)
31. Garcia H. H., Del Brutto O. H., Nash T. E., White A. C., Tsang V. C. W., Gilman R. H., New concepts in the diagnosis and management of neurocysticercosis (Taenia solium) American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2005 72 1 3 9 (Pubitemid 41270299)
32. Singh G., Rajshekhar V., Murthy J. M. K., Prabhakar S., Modi M., Khandelwal N., Garcia H. H., A diagnostic and therapeutic scheme for a solitary cysticercus granuloma Neurology 2010 75 24 2236 2245
33. Madrazo I., Garcia Renteria J. A., Sandoval M., Lopez Vega F. J., Intraventricular cysticercosis Neurosurgery 1983 12 2 148 152 (Pubitemid 13145183)
34. Do Amaral L. L. F., Ferreira R. M., Da Rocha A. J., Fortes Ferreira N. P. D., Neurocysticercosis: evaluation with advanced magnetic resonance techniques and atypical forms Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2005 16 2 127 144 (Pubitemid 43361865)
35. Del Brutto O. H., Rajshekhar V., White A. C., Tsang V. C. W., Nash T. E., Takayanagui O. M., Schantz P. M., Evans C. A. W., Flisser A., Correa D., Botero D., Allan J. C., Sarti E., Gonzalez A. E., Gilman R. H., Garca H. H., Proposed diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis Neurology 2001 57 2 177 183 (Pubitemid 32667348)
36. Gogia S., Talukdar B., Choudhury V., Singh Arora B., Neurocysticercosis in children: clinical findings and response to albendazole therapy in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in newly diagnosed cases Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2003 97 4 416 421 (Pubitemid 39186023)
37. Tsang V. C. W., Brand J. A., Boyer A. E., An enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay and glycoprotein antigens for diagnosing human cysticercosis (Taenia solium) Journal of Infectious Diseases 1989 159 1 50 59 (Pubitemid 19021995)
38. Mahanty S., Garcia H. H., Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis as pathogens affecting the nervous system Progress in Neurobiology 2010 91 2 172 184
39. Garca H. H., Del Brutto O. H., Heavy nonencephalitic cerebral cysticercosis in tapeworm carriers. The Cysticercosis Working Group in Per Neurology 1999 53 7 1582 1584 (Pubitemid 29491959)
40. Gilman R. H., Del Brutto O. H., Garca H. H., Martnez M., Prevalence of taeniosis among patients with neurocysticercosis is related to severity of infection Neurology 2000 55 7 1062
41. Garca H. H., Evans C. A. W., Nash T. E., Takayanagui O. M., White A. C., Botero D., Rajshekhar V., Tsang V. C. W., Schantz P. M., Allan J. C., Flisser A., Correa D., Sarti E., Friedland J. S., Martinez S. M., Gonzalez A. E., Gilman R. H., Del Brutto O. H., Current consensus guidelines for treatment of neurocysticercosis Clinical Microbiology Reviews 2002 15 4 747 756 (Pubitemid 41184085)
42. Nash T. E., Singh G., White A. C., Rajshekhar V., Loeb J. A., Proao J. V., Takayanagui O. M., Gonzalez A. E., Butman J. A., DeGiorgio C., Del Brutto O. H., Delgado-Escueta A., Evans C. A. W., Gilman R. H., Martinez S. M., Medina M. T., Pretell E. J., Teale J., Garcia H. H., Treatment of neurocysticercosis: current status and future research needs Neurology 2006 67 7 1120 1127 (Pubitemid 44563815)
43. Sotelo J., Diaz-Olavarrieta C., Neurocysticercosis: changes after 25 years of medical therapy Archives of Medical Research 2010 41 1 62 63
44. Sotelo J., Escobedo F., Rodriguez-Carbajal J., Therapy of parenchymal brain cysticercosis with praziquantel New England Journal of Medicine 1984 310 16 1001 1007 (Pubitemid 14129232)
45. Del Brutto O. H., Campos X., Snchez J., Mosquera A., Single-day praziquantel versus 1-week albendazole for neurocysticercosis Neurology 1999 52 5 1079 1081 (Pubitemid 29161627)
46. Pretell E. J., Garca H. H., Gilman R. H., Saavedra H., Martinez M., Failure of one-day praziquantel treatment in patients with multiple neurocysticercosis lesions Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 2001 103 3 175 177 (Pubitemid 32816283)
47. Escobedo F., Penagos P., Rodriguez J., Sotelo J., Albendazole therapy for neurocysticercosis Archives of Internal Medicine 1987 147 4 738 741 (Pubitemid 17063559)
48. Garcia H. H., Gilman R. H., Horton J., Martinez M., Herrera G., Altamirano J., Cuba J. M., Rios-Saavedra N., Verastegui M., Boero J., Gonzalez A. E., Albendazole therapy for neurocysticercosis: a prospective double-blind trial comparing 7 versus 14 days of treatment Neurology 1997 48 5 1421 1427 (Pubitemid 27240575)
49. Bustos J. A., Pretell E. J., Llanos-Zavalaga F., Gilman R. H., Del Brutto O. H., Garcia H. H., Efficacy of a 3-day course of albendazole treatment in patients with a single neurocysticercosis cyst Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 2006 108 2 193 194 (Pubitemid 43075541)
50. Sotelo J., Del Brutto O. H., Penagos P., Escobedo F., Torres B., Rodriguez-Carbajal J., Rubio-Donnadieu F., Comparison of therapeutic regimen of anticysticercal drugs for parenchymal brain cysticercosis Journal of Neurology 1990 237 2 69 72 (Pubitemid 20152071)
51. Takayanagui O. M., Jardim E., Therapy for neurocysticercosis: comparison between albendazole and praziquantel Archives of Neurology 1992 49 3 290 294
52. Del Brutto O. H., Albendazole therapy for subarachnoid cysticerci: clinical and neuroimaging analysis of 17 patients Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 1997 62 6 659 661 (Pubitemid 27281278)
53. Gngora-Rivera F., Soto-Hernndez J. L., Gonzlez Esquivel D., Cook H. J., Mquez-Caraveo C., Hernndez Dvila R., Santos-Zambrano J., Albendazole trial at 15 or 30mg/kg/day for subarachnoid and intraventricular cysticercosis Neurology 2006 66 3 436 438 (Pubitemid 43739954)
54. Proao J. V., Madrazo I., Avelar F., Lpez-Félix B., Daz G., Grijalva I., Medical treatment for neurocysticercosis characterized by giant subarachnoid cysts New England Journal of Medicine 2001 345 12 879 885
55. Salinas R., Counsell C., Prasad K., Gelband H., Garner P., Treating neurocysticercosis medically: a systematic review of randomized, controlled trials Tropical Medicine and International Health 1999 4 11 713 718
56. Garcia H. H., Pretell E. J., Gilman R. H., Martinez S. M., Moulton L. H., Del Brutto O. H., Herrera G., Evans C. A. W., Gonzalez A. E., A trial of antiparasitic treatment to reduce the rate of seizures due to cerebral cysticercosis New England Journal of Medicine 2004 350 3 249 258 (Pubitemid 38067637)
57. Baranwal A. K., Singhi P. D., Khandelwal N., Singhi S. C., Albendazole therapy in children with focal seizures and single small enhancing computerized tomographic lesions: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind trial Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 1998 17 8 696 700 (Pubitemid 28388158)
58. Kalra V., Dua T., Kumar V., Efficacy of albendazole and short-course dexamethasone treatment in children with 1 or 2 ring-enhancing lesions of neurocysticercosis: a randomized controlled trial Journal of Pediatrics 2003 143 1 111 114 (Pubitemid 36928577)
59. Del Brutto O. H., Roos K. L., Coffey C. S., Garca H. H., Meta-analysis: cysticidal drugs for neurocysticercosis: albendazole and praziquantel Annals of Internal Medicine 2006 145 1 43 51 (Pubitemid 46780606)
60. Del Brutto O. H., Prognostic factors for seizure recurrence after withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs in patients with neurocysticercosis Neurology 1994 44 9 1706 1709 (Pubitemid 24286652)
61. Keilbach N. M., De Aluja A. S., Sarti-Gutierrez E., A programme to control taeniasis-cysticercosis (T. solium): experiences in a Mexican village Acta Leidensia 1989 57 2 181 189
62. Pawlowski Z. S., Role of chemotherapy of taeniasis in prevention of neurocysticercosis Parasitology International 2006 55 S105 S109