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- Title:
- Epidemiology of neurocysticercosis in Brazil
- Agapejev, Svetlana
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- 0036-4665
- A revision of literature was done with the objective of tracing an epidemiologic profile of neurocysticercosis (NCC) in Brazil. The prevalence was 0.12-9% in autopsies. The frequency was 0.03-7.5% in clinical series and 0.68-5.2% in seroepidemiological studies. The disease corresponds to 0.08-2.5% of admissions to general hospitals. Patient origin was rural in 30 63% of cases. The most involved age range (64-100%) was 11 to 60 years, with a predominance (22-67%) between 21 and 40 years. The male sex was the most affected (51-80%). In the severe forms there was a predominance of urban origin (53-62%) and of the female sex (53-75%). The period of hospitalization ranges from 1 to 254 days and 33 to 50% of patients suffer 1.7 ± 1.4 admissions. The clinical picture was variable, with a predominance of epileptic syndrome (22-92%) and intracranial hypertension (19-89%). Psychiatric manifestations were associated in 9-23% of patients. Lethality was 0.29% in terms of all diseases in general and 4.8-25.9% in terms of neurologic diseases. The asymptomatic form was detected in 6% of patients in clinical serie and in 48.5% of case from autopsies The racemose form and ventricular localization also was observed as asymptomatic form. Among the patients with cutaneous cysticercosis 65% of them showed neurologic manifestations.
- 1-May-1996
- Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, v. 38, n. 3, p. 207-216, 1996.
- 207-216
- Cysticercosis
- Epidemiology
- Neurocysticercosis
- adolescent
- adult
- Brazil
- child
- cysticercosis
- female
- human
- male
- middle aged
- neurologic disease
- review
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Nervous System Diseases
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651996000300008
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