Author(s): Cardenas, Graciela ; Guevara-Silva, Erik ; Romero, Felipe ; Ugalde, Yair ; Bonnet, Cecilia ; Fleury, Agnes ; Sciutto, Edda ; Nunes, Caris Maroni [UNESP] ; Soto-Hernandez, Jose Luis ; Shankar, Susarla Krishna ; Mahadevan, Anita
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/165123
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Neurocysticercosis; Spinal cysticercosis; Taenia solium; CSF; Arachnoiditis; Hydrocephalus
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To present a retrospective study from patients with spinal cysticercosis (SC), diagnosed within the last 30 years in Mexican and Indian neurological referral centers. This is a retrospective and comparative study of the clinical and radiological profile between Mexican and Indian patients with spinal neurocysticercosis during a 30-year period and a review of the literature during the same period. Twenty-seven SC patients were included: 19 from Mexico and 8 from India. SC presented predominantly with motor symptoms (21/27 patients): paraparesis and paraplegia were the most common signs; one-third of patients presented sphincter dysfunction. Imaging studies showed that parasites in vesicular stage were more frequent in patients from Mexico, while degenerative stages predominated in India. Association of subarachnoid cysticerci and hydrocephalus was observed only in Mexican patients. Despite the limitations of this study, the collected information supports the existence of differences in the clinical and radiological traits of SC patients between Asian and Latin-American hospitals. The possible biological factors that may underlie these differences are discussed.
Inst Nacl Neurol & Neurocirug, Dept Neuroinfectol, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Hop La Pitie Salpetriere, Dept Neurol, Paris, France
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Dept Immunol, Inst Invest Biomed, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
Univ Estadual Paulista, Arcatuba, Brazil
Natl Inst Mental Hlth & Neurosci, Bangalore 560029, Karnataka, India
Inst Nacl Neurol & Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Su, Dept Infect Dis, Insurgentes 3877, Mexico City 14269, DF, Mexico
Univ Estadual Paulista, Arcatuba, Brazil
