DSpace Repository

On the relationship between calcified neurocysticercosis and epilepsy in an endemic village: A large-scale, computed tomography-based population study in rural Ecuador

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author Del Brutto, O. H.
dc.contributor.author Arroyo Hurtado, Gianfranco
dc.contributor.author Del Brutto, V. J.
dc.contributor.author Zambrano, M.
dc.contributor.author García Lescano, Héctor Hugo
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-25T16:20:58Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-25T16:20:58Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4823
dc.description.abstract Objective: Using a large-scale population-based study, we aimed to assess prevalence and patterns of presentation of neurocysticercosis (NCC) and its relationship with epilepsy in community-dwellers aged 20 years living in Atahualpa (rural Ecuador). Methods: In a three-phase epidemiological study, individuals with suspected seizures were identified during a door-to-door survey and an interview (phase I). Then, neurologists evaluated suspected cases and randomly selected negative persons to estimate epilepsy prevalence (phase II). In phase III, all participants were offered noncontrast computed tomography (CT) for identifying NCC cases. The independent association between NCC (exposure) and epilepsy (outcome) was assessed by the use of multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for age, sex, level of education, and alcohol intake. CT findings were subsequently compared to archived brain magnetic resonance imaging in a sizable subgroup of participants. Results: Of 1,604 villagers aged >= 20 years, 1,462 (91%) were enrolled. Forty-one persons with epilepsy (PWE) were identified, for a crude prevalence of epilepsy of 28 per 1,000 population (95% confidence interval [CI] = 20.7-38.2). A head CT was performed in 1,228 (84%) of 1,462 participants, including 39 of 41 PWE. CT showed lesions consistent with calcified parenchymal brain cysticerci in 118 (9.6%) cases (95% CI = 8.1-11.4%). No patient had other forms of NCC. Nine of 39 PWE, as opposed to 109 of 1,189 participants without epilepsy, had NCC (23.1% vs. 9.2%, p = 0.004). This difference persisted in the adjusted logistic regression model (odds ratio = 3.04, 95% CI = 1.35-6.81, p = 0.007). Significance: This large CT-based study demonstrates that PWE had three times the odds of having NCC than those without epilepsy, providing robust epidemiological evidence favoring the relationship between NCC and epilepsy. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.relation.ispartofseries Epilepsia
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Cysticercosis en_US
dc.subject Neurocysticercosis en_US
dc.subject cysticercosis en_US
dc.subject diagnosis en_US
dc.subject seizures en_US
dc.subject prevalence en_US
dc.subject tanzania en_US
dc.subject community en_US
dc.subject Neurosciences & Neurology en_US
dc.subject Epilepsy prevalence en_US
dc.subject intracranial calcifications en_US
dc.subject Population-based studies en_US
dc.subject Rural areas en_US
dc.subject serology en_US
dc.title On the relationship between calcified neurocysticercosis and epilepsy in an endemic village: A large-scale, computed tomography-based population study in rural Ecuador en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.13892
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.25
dc.relation.issn 1528-1167


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Search DSpace


Browse

My Account

Statistics