Disease Centered Around Calcified Taenia solium Granuloma

Nash, Theodore E.; García Lescano, Héctor Hugo; Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo

dc.contributor.author	Nash, Theodore E.
dc.contributor.author	Bustos Palomino, Javier Arturo
dc.contributor.author	García Lescano, Héctor Hugo
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-25T16:59:37Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-25T16:59:37Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4892
dc.description.abstract	Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm) is present in most developing countries, where it is a frequent cause of seizures and other neurological disease. Parasitic larvae invade the human brain, establish, and eventually resolve, leaving a calcified scar. While these lesions are common in endemic regions, and most of these are clinically silent, a proportion of individuals with calcified cysticerci develop seizures from these lesions, and 30-65% of these cases are associated with perilesional edema (PE), likely due to host inflammation. This manuscript summarizes the importance, characteristics, natural history, and potential prevention and treatments of symptomatic calcified neurocysticercosis (NCC).	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Trends in Parasitology
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject	Humans	en_US
dc.subject	Animals	en_US
dc.subject	epilepsy	en_US
dc.subject	neurocysticercosis	en_US
dc.subject	Taenia solium/physiology	en_US
dc.subject	calcified granuloma	en_US
dc.subject	perilesional edema	en_US
dc.subject	seizures	en_US
dc.subject	Brain/parasitology	en_US
dc.subject	Calcinosis/complications/etiology	en_US
dc.subject	Edema/etiology	en_US
dc.subject	Granuloma/etiology	en_US
dc.subject	Neurocysticercosis/complications/parasitology	en_US
dc.subject	Seizures/etiology/parasitology	en_US
dc.title	Disease Centered Around Calcified Taenia solium Granuloma	en_US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/review
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2016.09.003
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.07
dc.relation.issn	1471-5007