Diagnosis of neurocysticercosis among patients with seizures in northern coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh, India

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• 作者：Bala Chandra Sekhar Pappala¹ ; Jyothi Padmaja Indugula² ; Sateesh Kumar Talabhatula³ ; Ramalakshmi Suryakarani Kolli⁴ ; Arpit Kumar Shrivastava⁵ ; Priyadarshi Soumyaranjan Sahu⁶ ; ^{priyadarshi_sahu@yahoo.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Neurocysticercosis ; Cysticercosis ; Seizures ; Andhra Pradesh
• 刊名：Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：6
• 期：11
• 页码：903-908
• 全文大小：536 K

文摘

To report cases of neurocysticercosis (NCC) from three neighboring districts of Andhra Pradesh state in India where NCC burden was never explored before.

Methods

A total of 160 patients presenting with recent onset seizures were recruited from neurology, general medicine, and pediatric outpatient clinics of a local major tertiary care teaching hospital serving above districts during the period 2011–2014. Brain imaging was performed in all the above cases. A commercial immunoglobulin G-ELISA kit (sensitivity = 85%; specificity = 94%) was employed for the serological diagnosis of NCC.

Results

The recruited patients presented with generalized, simple partial, and complex partial seizures (55%, 31.25% and 13.75% respectively). NCC was diagnosed in 44 of 160 (27.5%) seizure cases based on imaging characteristics, and a positive serum antibody ELISA. No association was detected between seropositivity with the number and location of the lesion(s) in the brain.

Conclusions

The possible potentiality of NCC could be identified as an underlying cause of the recent onset of seizures in this region as explored in the present study. It is recommended that NCC should be suspected as one of the major differential in every recent onset seizure with or without a radio imaging supportive diagnosis, especially in areas endemic for taeniasis/cysticercosis.