Severe forms of neurocysticercosis: treatment with albendazole.

Abstract:

:Study of 22 patients with the severe form of neurocysticercosis treated with albendazole (ABZ) administered in 6 different schedules ranging from 15 to 30 mg/kg/day for 21 to 60 days. Dextrochloropheniramine and ketoprofen were the adjuvant drugs. Multiple symptoms were observed in 90.9% of patients. Intracranial hypertension was manifested in 90.9%. Hydrocephaly occurred in 86.4%. Evolution was satisfactory in 10 patients, 8 died and 4 had sequelae. Tomographic studies showed the appearance of an isolated IVth ventricle in 9 patients, after ventriculoperitoneal shunt, before ABZ treatment in 3 of them, during in 5 and after treatment in one. Median clinical follow-up duration was 10 months for the patients who died and 3-4 years for survivors. In 3 patients there was an increase in cyst size during the administration of the 15 mg/kg/day ABZ dose, which was not observed in any patient when the 30 mg/kg/day dose was used.

journal_name

Arq Neuropsiquiatr

authors

Agapejev S,Da Silva MD,Ueda AK

doi

10.1590/s0004-282x1996000100014

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-03-01 00:00:00

pages

82-93

issue

1

eissn

0004-282X

issn

1678-4227

journal_volume

54

pub_type

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