Caracterización clínica y epidemiológica de pacientes con diagnóstico de neurocisticercosis

Abstract

Received: Feb 20, 2019 Accepted: May 10, 2019 \nObjectives: this research made this characterization for patients from three Guatemala’s hospitals diagnosed with neurocysticercosis. \nMaterials and Methods: the data from a 5 years registry was used to make the characterization of the patients with age from fifteen to fifty years old. To make the characterization, we use seven variables where we included social and clinical characteristics. \nResults: Headache, hydrocephalus and seizures are the prevailing symptoms, found in more than fifty percent of the cases. The parasites colonizemore frequently the parenchymatous and the ventricular regions. Epidemiologically, we determined that the prevalence of the parasite is one in a thousand patients.