Graciela Cárdenas1,2, Erik Guevara-Silva3, Felipe Romero3, Yair Ugalde3, Cecilia Bonnet4, Agnes Fleury5, Edda Sciutto5, Caris Maroni Nunes6, José Luis Soto-Hernández3, Susarla Krishna Shankar7, Anita Mahadevan7. 1. Department of Neuroinfectology, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Mexico City, Mexico. grace_goker@yahoo.de. 2. Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Insurgentes Sur 3877, Tlalpan, CP. 14269, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. grace_goker@yahoo.de. 3. Department of Neuroinfectology, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Mexico City, Mexico. 4. Department of Neurology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France. 5. Department of Immunology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico. 6. Universidade Estadual Paulista, Arçatuba, Brazil. 7. National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To present a retrospective study from patients with spinal cysticercosis (SC), diagnosed within the last 30 years in Mexican and Indian neurological referral centers. METHODS: This is a retrospective and comparative study of the clinical and radiological profile between Mexican and Indian patients with spinal neurocysticercosis during a 30-year period and a review of the literature during the same period. RESULTS: Twenty-seven SC patients were included: 19 from Mexico and 8 from India. SC presented predominantly with motor symptoms (21/27 patients): paraparesis and paraplegia were the most common signs; one-third of patients presented sphincter dysfunction. Imaging studies showed that parasites in vesicular stage were more frequent in patients from Mexico, while degenerative stages predominated in India. Association of subarachnoid cysticerci and hydrocephalus was observed only in Mexican patients. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the limitations of this study, the collected information supports the existence of differences in the clinical and radiological traits of SC patients between Asian and Latin-American hospitals. The possible biological factors that may underlie these differences are discussed.
OBJECTIVE: To present a retrospective study from patients with spinal cysticercosis (SC), diagnosed within the last 30 years in Mexican and Indian neurological referral centers. METHODS: This is a retrospective and comparative study of the clinical and radiological profile between Mexican and Indian patients with spinal neurocysticercosis during a 30-year period and a review of the literature during the same period. RESULTS: Twenty-seven SC patients were included: 19 from Mexico and 8 from India. SC presented predominantly with motor symptoms (21/27 patients): paraparesis and paraplegia were the most common signs; one-third of patients presented sphincter dysfunction. Imaging studies showed that parasites in vesicular stage were more frequent in patients from Mexico, while degenerative stages predominated in India. Association of subarachnoid cysticerci and hydrocephalus was observed only in Mexican patients. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the limitations of this study, the collected information supports the existence of differences in the clinical and radiological traits of SC patients between Asian and Latin-American hospitals. The possible biological factors that may underlie these differences are discussed.
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