Title
Short report: Hemorrhagic cerebrovascular events and neurocysticercosis: A case report and review of the literature
Date Issued
01 March 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
University of Texas Medical Branch
Abstract
Cerebrovascular complications have been reported to occur in patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC). We report a patient who presented with relapsed subarachnoid hemorrhage possibly linked to NCC. In addition, we performed a literature review of all of the reported cases of aneurysmal and non-aneurysmal hemorrhagic cerebrovascular events associated with NCC. We identified 11 such cases. The majority of the individuals were young males (mean: 38 years; 70% males). Four cases (36%) had aneurysms. Four (36%) others had negative cerebral angiograms and therefore classified as non-aneurysmal, while the remaining three (28%) did not report sufficient information to classify them. All cases with aneurysmal hemorrhage underwent successful surgical repair of the aneurysms. Seven patients received albendazole (including three who had had surgery). Three patients died; all three presented in the pre-albendazole era. In summary, neurocysticercosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of hemorrhagic cerebrovascular events in young patients without classical vascular risk factors who have lived or visited NCC-endemic areas. Copyright © 2011 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Start page
402
End page
405
Volume
84
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Medicina tropical
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-79955653913
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
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