Older Age in Subarachnoid Neurocysticercosis Reflects a Long Prepatent Period.

Pretell, E. Javier; Gonzales, Isidro; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo; Saavedra, Herbert; Perez, Erika; Saenz, Edith; Castillo Berrios, Yesenia; Nateros Baldeón, Percy Fernando

dc.contributor.author	Nateros Baldeón, Percy Fernando
dc.contributor.author	Saenz, Edith
dc.contributor.author	Saavedra, Herbert
dc.contributor.author	Gonzales, Isidro
dc.contributor.author	Pretell, E. Javier
dc.contributor.author	Perez, Erika
dc.contributor.author	Castillo Berrios, Yesenia
dc.contributor.author	Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo
dc.contributor.author	García Lescano, Héctor Hugo
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-18T16:18:56Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-18T16:18:56Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/13932
dc.description.abstract	Patients with subarachnoid neurocysticercosis (NCC) are usually older than those with parenchymal disease. Whether this difference reflects a prolonged presymptomatic period or a delay in diagnosis is not clear. From 408 eligible patients, we retrospectively compared the age at symptom onset in 140 patients diagnosed with parenchymal (pure viable or pure calcified) and subarachnoid NCC who had a confirmatory image available not more than 2 years after the beginning of symptoms. Patients with mixed (parenchymal and subarachnoid) NCC or those with parenchymal cysts at different stages (viable and/or degenerating and/or calcified) were not included. After controlling by sex and residence in rural endemic regions, the mean age at symptom onset in patients with subarachnoid disease was 13.69 years older than those with viable parenchymal disease. A long incubation period is a major contributing factor to older age at presentation in subarachnoid NCC, independent of delayed diagnosis or access to care.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.relation.ispartofseries	American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject	Older Age	en_US
dc.subject	Subarachnoid Neurocysticercosis	en_US
dc.subject	Prepatent Period	en_US
dc.subject.mesh	Anciano
dc.subject.mesh	Neurocisticercosis
dc.subject.mesh	Enfermedades Transmisibles
dc.title	Older Age in Subarachnoid Neurocysticercosis Reflects a Long Prepatent Period.	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.22-0791
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06
dc.relation.issn	1476-1645