SPECTRUM OF EPILEPSY IN NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS - A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF 143 PATIENTS

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1995

Authors

MONTEIRO, L (Author) Other; NUNES, B (Author) Other; MENDONCA, D (Author) ICBAS; LOPES, J (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Vol. 92

Pages: 33-40

ISSN: 0001-6314

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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ISI Web of Knowledge - 42 Citations

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Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-GMR

Abstract (EN): To characterize the clinical profile and the prognostic factors of the epilepsy due to parenchymal neurocysticercosis (NCC) 143 patients were analysed. Patients (62 men, 81 women) had a mean age at epilepsy onset of 29 years (range 2-71), mean epilepsy duration of 16 years (range 1-58) and mean follow-up of 5.2 years. Seizures were generalised tonic-clonic (GTC) in 50 patients (35%), simple partial (SP) in 66 (46%) and complex partial (CP) in 27 (19%). Epilepsy began as a single seizure in 73% and as a cluster of seizures or status epilepticus in 27%. Seizures were controlled in 64% of patients. Multivariate analysis revealed that significant prognostic factors associated with seizure control were type of seizures and age at epilepsy onset. Control is more likely in GTC and SP seizures and in patients with a higher age at seizures onset. Our analysis establishes that epilepsy due to NCC is a heterogeneous syndrome concerning age and mode of onset, seizure type, duration of epilepsy and pattern of evolution probably related with different pathogenic mechanisms.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8