1. Treatment of neurocysticercosis: a randomised controlled trial
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Pierre-Marie Preux, Peter Odermatt, Michel Druet-Cabanac, Laboratoire de Biostatistique et d'Informatique Médicale, Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Neuroépidémiologie Tropicale et Comparée (NETEC), Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503)-Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Service de l'Information Médicale et de l'Évaluation [CHU Limoges] (SIME), CHU Limoges, Service de Santé au Travail [CHU Limoges], and Unité Fonctionnelle Registre Général des Cancers du Limousin (UFRGC)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,Neurocysticercosis ,Placebo-controlled study ,Seizure recurrence ,Albendazole ,law.invention ,MESH: Neurocysticercosis ,Double blind ,MESH: Brain ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Randomized controlled trial ,law ,MESH: Albendazole ,Medicine ,[SDV.MP.PAR]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Parasitology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,MESH: Taeniasis ,MESH: Antiparasitic Agents ,MESH: Humans ,business.industry ,3. Good health ,Surgery ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,Brain cysts ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,medicine.drug - Abstract
In this issue, Carpio and colleagues1 report on a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial on patients with neurocysticercosis (see page 1050) . Their findings, published on behalf of the Ecuadorian Neurocysticercosis Group, add to the vividly debated issue of treatment of neurocysticercosis.2 Albendazole treatment was evaluated to reduce active brain cysts of neurocysticercosis and seizure recurrence. Carpio and colleagues1 found that in significantly more patients, active brain cysts were cured and a higher reduction of number of brain cysts was achieved. These findings confirm previous reports. However, although a significant reduction in brain cysts …
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- 2008
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