Title
Clinical topography relationship in patients with parenchymal neurocysticercosis and seizures
Date Issued
01 September 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Objective: Discordances between imaging findings of parenchymal neurocysticercosis and seizure expression have been reported, and as such the possibility that neurocysticercosis and seizures may frequently coexist by chance has been raised. In this study, we evaluate the topographic relationship between seizure foci based on semiology and electroencephalography with the location of parenchymal neurocysticercotic lesions. Methods: Seizure information, neuroimaging (computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]) and electroencephalographic data from three randomized clinical trials of individuals with parenchymal neurocysticercosis and focal seizures were analyzed. Blinded epileptologists defined a potential seizure onset zone and a symptomatogenic zone for each individual based on semiology. The topographic relationship between semiology, either lesion location or areas of perilesional edema on baseline MRI, and electroencephalographic abnormalities were assessed. Results: Fifty-eight patients with one or two parenchymal neurocysticercotic lesions were included in this study. From them, 50 patients (86%; 95% CI, 75%–93%) showed a clinical-topography relationship with the potential seizure onset zone, and 44 (76%) also with the symptomatogenic zone. From the eight patients with no topographic relationship, five had focal seizures 30 days before or after the baseline MRI and showed perilesional edema. All of these five patients showed a clinical-topography relationship between such seizures and an area of perilesional edema, making a total of 55 patients (95%; 95% CI, 85%–99%) with clinical-topography relationship when perilesional edema is considered. Most patients with focal epileptiform discharges (7/8, 88%) had a topographic association between electroencephalographic focality, the potential seizure onset zone and a cysticercotic lesion. Conclusion: Seizure semiology and focal epileptiform discharges are topographically related to neurocysticercotic lesions in most patients. These data strongly support seizure origin in the cortex surrounding these lesions.
Start page
145
End page
152
Volume
145
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología Neurología clínica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049342017
PubMed ID
Source
Epilepsy Research
ISSN of the container
09201211
Sponsor(s)
The parent clinical trials were funded by the NINDS-NIH grant NS054805 and the Intramural Research Program of the NIAID-NIH. Partial support from the Fogarty International Center/NIH (training grant D43 TW001140 ) is also acknowledged. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; in the collection, management, analysis and interpretation of data; in the preparation, writing, review or approval of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. K.R. Duque is partially supported by FIC-NIH training grant D43TW001140. J .G. Burneo has received research funding from the Ontario Brain Institute, Epilepsy Ontario and UCB Canada, and has received honoraria for speaking engagements from UCB Canada and Eisai. J .A. Bustos is partially supported by NIH grants R01 AI116456 and FIC-NIH training grant D43TW001140. H.H. Garcia is supported by NIH grants U19AI129909 , U01NS086974 , R21NS094976 , and FIC-NIH training grant D43TW001140. A.L. Escalaya, W. Zapata, I. Gonzales, H. Saavedra and E.J. Pretell report no disclosures.
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