Treatment of neurocysticercosis: current status and future research needs

TE Nash, G Singh, AC White, V Rajshekhar, JA Loeb… - Neurology, 2006 - AAN Enterprises
Here we put forward a roadmap that summarizes important questions that need to be
answered to determine more effective and safer treatments. A key concept in management …

From seizures to epilepsy and its substrates: N eurocysticercosis

G Singh, JG Burneo, JW Sander - Epilepsia, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the main risk factor for late‐onset seizures in many Taenia
solium endemic countries and is also increasingly recognized in high income countries …

Update on cysticercosis epileptogenesis: the role of the hippocampus

OH Del Brutto, J Engel, DS Eliashiv… - Current neurology and …, 2016 - Springer
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common helminthic infection of the nervous system
and a frequent cause of reactive seizures and epilepsy worldwide. In many cases, multiple …

Calcified cysticercotic lesions and intractable epilepsy: a cross sectional study of 512 patients

TR Velasco, PA Zanello, CL Dalmagro… - Journal of Neurology …, 2006 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background: Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of epilepsy in developing countries and is
endemic in Brazil. To test the hypothesis that the aetiological profile of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Neurocysticercosis-related seizures: Imaging biomarkers

C Ratcliffe, G Adan, A Marson, T Solomon… - … : European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurocysticercosis (NCC)—a parasitic CNS infection endemic to developing nations—has
been called the leading global cause of acquired epilepsy yet remains understudied. It is …

Clinical presentation of neurocysticercosis-related epilepsy

KR Duque, JG Burneo - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous
system and a major risk factor for seizures and epilepsy. Seizure types in NCC vary largely …

Characteristics of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis plus neurocysticercosis

MM Bianchin, TR Velasco, L Wichert-Ana… - Epilepsy research, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent observations suggest that neurocysticercosis (NCC) might act as an initial
precipitating injury (IPI) causing mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal …

Understanding the association of neurocysticercosis and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and its impact on the surgical treatment of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy

MM Bianchin, TR Velasco, L Wichert-Ana… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis (MTLE-HS) is one of
the most common types of focal epilepsies. This is an epileptic syndrome commonly …

Neuroimaging observations linking neurocysticercosis and mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

MM Bianchin, TR Velasco, L Wichert-Ana, D Araújo Jr… - Epilepsy research, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To test if chronic calcificed neurocysticercosis (cNCC) and hippocampal sclerosis
occur more often than by chance ipsilateral to the same brain hemisphere or brain region in …

Neurocysticercosis in children

P Singhi, S Singhi - The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2009 - Springer
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a common cause of seizures and neurologic disease. Although
there may be variable presentations depending on the stage and location of cysts in the …