Title
Quality of life in patients with symptomatic epilepsy due to neurocysticercosis
Date Issued
01 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Yang S.Y.
Saavedra H.
Guzman C.
Pretell E.J.
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
Background: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a common cause of late-onset epilepsy worldwide, but there is still minimal information regarding its impact on a patient's quality of life. This study evaluated quality of life in a series of patients with epilepsy secondary to NCC using the QOLIE (Quality of Life in Epilepsy)-31 questionnaire. Methodology: This cross-sectional study included 155 Peruvian patients between 16 and 70 years of age with epilepsy due to viable intraparenchymal NCC, who enrolled in two trials of anti-parasitic treatment during the period 2006–2011. The QOLIE-31 questionnaire was applied before the onset of anti-parasitic treatment. The associations between QOLIE-31 scores, sociodemographic characteristics, clinical, and neuroimaging data were analyzed with Kruskal–Wallis test and generalized linear models (GLM). Results: The average QOLIE-31 score was 55.8 (SD ± 7.6), with 119 individuals (76.8%) scoring in the poor quality-of-life category. Generalized tonic-clonic seizures and secondarily generalized epileptic seizures were associated with a lower QOLIE-31, as well as a low level of education with a value of p = 0.05. There were no associations between QOLIE-31 scores and other variables such as sex, age, antiepileptic medication, number of parasitic cysts, and number of compromised brain regions. On multivariate analysis, a greater number of generalized epileptic seizures maintained a statistically significant association with detrimental QOLIE-31 scores. Conclusion: Quality of life is affected in NCC, mainly in relation to the number of prior generalized epileptic seizures.
Volume
131
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Neurología clínica
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85129494970
PubMed ID
Source
Epilepsy and Behavior
ISSN of the container
15255050
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially supported by FIC-NIH Training Grant D43TW001140. The authors thank Drs. A. Guillermo Lescano and Sumona Datta for their mentoring on the present project; Dr. Saúl Santivañez, for his observations and improvements directed to the study, and all of the participants and clinical workers involved in the collection of data.
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