Neurocysticercosis: declining incidence among patients admitted to a large public hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador

被引：5

作者：

Alarcon, Tomas A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Del Brutto, Oscar H. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Hosp Reg Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, Inst Ecuatoriano Seguridad Social, Neurol Serv, Guayaquil, Ecuador

[2] Univ Guayaquil, Sch Med, Guayaquil, Ecuador

[3] Hosp Clin Kennedy, Dept Neurol Sci, Guayaquil, Ecuador

[4] Univ Especialidades Espiritu Santo, Sch Med, Guayaquil, Ecuador

来源：

PATHOGENS AND GLOBAL HEALTH | 2012年 / 106卷 / 05期

关键词：

Cysticercosis; Neurocysticercosis; Incidence; Guayaquil; LATE-ONSET EPILEPSY; MILLENNIUM; MEXICO;

D O I：

10.1179/2047773212Y.0000000044

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

It has been stated that new cases of neurocysticercosis (NCC) are declining in some endemic regions over the past years. To confirm this assertion, we evaluated all NCC patients (n=362) admitted to the Neurological Service of our Hospital from 1982 to 2011, and we noted a significant reduction in the incidence of NCC, when compared with the total number of patients admitted to the Service over the study years (6.4% of 2,723 patients from 1982 to 1991, 2.7% of 3,056 patients from 1992 to 2001, and 3.5% of 2,996 patients from 2002 to 2012; p < 0.0001). It is likely that improved sanitation, together with increased availability of neuroimaging machines which allow prompt recognition and management of NCC cases avoiding disease progression, were the main responsibles for our findings.

引用

页码：310 / 311

页数：2

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