Medical Evaluation before Electroconvulsive Therapy Jun 25, 2009
However, in areas where the parasite is endemic, silent, undetected neurocysticercosis is a good reason for mandatory neuroimaging before ECT. In Brazil, with the use of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging, or both, we prospectively evaluated 91 consecutive psychiatric outpatients who were candidates for ECT. We identified hidden neurocysticercosis in six patients (7%). We detected active, multiple cystic neurocysticercosis in one patient; inactive, multiple neurocysticercosis... (New England Journal of Medicine)
Worms infectpoor inU.S. Dec 27, 2007
In the hospitals of Los Angeles, California, neurocysticercosis currently accounts for 10 percent of all seizures presenting to some emergency departments, he wrote. We need to begin erasing these horrific health disparities, Hotez wrote in the paper. (MSNBC -- Health)
Worms infect more poor Americans than thought Dec 26, 2007
"In the hospitals of Los Angeles, California, neurocysticercosis currently accounts for 10 percent of all seizures presenting to some emergency departments," he wrote. "We need to begin erasing these horrific health disparities," Hotez wrote in the paper, available online at http://www. (Scientific American)
Neurocysticercosis Uncovered by Single-Dose Albendazole Mar 22, 2007
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Parasitic infection plagues states along ... (Joyce Howard Price) Feb 8, 2007
Federal researchers say neurocysticercosis, a brain infection caused by a pork tapeworm, is a "growing public health problem in the United States," especially in states bordering Mexico, where the disease is endemic. Neurocysticercosis is the "most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system," according to a study jointly conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California public health officials, who reported that "international travel and immigration... (Washington Times, DC)
