Oscar H Del Brutto

..It is possible that some patients had acquired the disease as the result of contact with Taenia solium carriers coming from endemic countries. Much remains to be learned on the prevalence of neurocysticercosis in this region...

..To determine if the number of neurocysticercosis cases among patients with late-onset epilepsy has decreased over the past two decades...

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..Here, we describe the methodology of this field study that may be used as a model for the evaluation of neurological disorders in rural communities of developing countries...

..Six of the 10 patients had hypertensive arteriolopathy (five with ischemic and one with hemorrhagic stroke). Additional work is needed to increase knowledge on stroke in developing countries...

..To determine the prevalence of epilepsy and the role of neurocysticercosis in the occurrence of epilepsy in Atahualpa...

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..To confirm recent evidence suggesting a change in the pattern of disease expression of neurocysticercosis, manifested by a decreasing number of severe and recent infections...

..Household contacts should always be investigated in children with neurocysticercosis. Proper identification and treatment of Taenia solium carriers will reduce the risk of further spread of the disease...

..CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of cerebrovascular complications related to Bothrops spp. bites is 2.6%. Intracranial hemorrhages are more frequent than cerebral infarcts. The prognosis of these patients is poor...

..solium, including human carriers of the adult tapeworm, infected pigs, and eggs in the environment...

..Review of case reports and case series of patients with single cysticercus granulomas in non-endemic countries to determine the characteristics of this form of neurocysticercosis in these regions...

..The present study was undertaken to determine whether neurocysticercosis is more common among patients with primary headaches than in other neurological disorders...

..Here, we attempted to determine whether patients with cysticercal granulomas are younger than those with other forms of parenchymal brain cysticercosis...

..This pathogenetic mechanism has also been implicated as the cause of cerebral infarctions in snake bite victims. Alternatively, the leukoencephalopathy might have been a complication of antivenom therapy...

..Conflicting reports have caused controversy on whether cysticidal drugs modify the natural course of neurocysticercosis...

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..There is scarce information on the demographic profile and diseases affecting neurologic outpatients...

..Nowadays, distribution of neurologic symptoms and diseases in our population of very old neurologic patients is more similar to that reported from the developed world than it was 20 years ago...

..Review of human cysticercosis in Canada, to estimate the magnitude of the disease and to describe the pattern of disease expression in this country...