PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | neurocysticercosis |
| Symptom | C0014544|epilepsy |
| Sentences | 12 |
| PubMedID- 23509701 | Furthermore, it has been estimated that around 0.45–1.35 million cases of epilepsy are attributable to neurocysticercosis in those countries, which may directly increase morbidity and mortality rates associated with this parasite infection 3. |
| PubMedID- 23148555 | Prevalence of neurocysticercosis among people with epilepsy in rural areas of burkina faso. |
| PubMedID- 22345881 | Secondary cases of epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis (in 40.5%) were diagnosed in ct scan. |
| PubMedID- 25569744 | Objective: this study aimed to compare clinical outcomes including seizure frequency and psychiatric symptoms between patients with epilepsy with neuroimaging evidence of past brain parenchymal neurocysticercosis infection, patients with other structural brain lesions, and patients without structural neuroimaging abnormalities. |
| PubMedID- 26345057 | Solium carriers act as important risk for neurocysticercosis, leading to adult onset epilepsy in the country. |
| PubMedID- 26285031 | Prevalence of neurocysticercosis in people with epilepsy in the eastern province of zambia. |
| PubMedID- 24551255 | neurocysticercosis as a cause of epilepsy and seizures in two community-based studies in a cysticercosis-endemic region in peru. |
| PubMedID- 23915395 | Gaps in research on epidemiology, ecology, and surveillance of taeniasis/cysticercosis need to be focused on distribution maps for countries and accurate hospital data; dalys calculation for cysticercosis burden, and proportion of epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis in china and the southeast asia; accurate porcine cysticercosis data; the minimum effort required to reduce transmission to ro < 1; transmission dynamics basic parameters for t. solium; multi-center assessment of current serological tests (glycoprotein antigen, circulating antigen) for human and pig cysticercosis; specificity in relation to t. hydatigena; effective dna detection by lamp for field use; and increased studies on epidemiology and transmission of t. solium in asia. |
| PubMedID- 24205415 | Study description of cysticerosis (cc) or neurocysticercosis (ncc) in patients with epilepsy (without control group). |
| PubMedID- 24808243 | For others, chronic parasitic infections acquired years ago in other areas of the world can manifest with severe illness later in life, such as neurocysticercosis leading to adult–onset epilepsy or chagas disease leading to severe cardiomyopathy requiring heart transplant. |
| PubMedID- 22479664 | When humans act as the intermediate host, the result can be neurocysticercosis, which is associated with acquired epilepsy, considerable morbidity and even mortality. |
| PubMedID- 21666796 | It is crucial to distinguish people with epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis from other people with epilepsy by clinical symptoms and/or serology, because the former warrants a specific approach both in terms of diagnosis and treatment. |
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