Neurocysticercosis in 578 black epileptic patients.
In a study of 578 epileptic patients at the Ga-Rankuwa Hospital, 281 had abnormal computed tomography (CT) of the brain (48.6%), and in 162 (average age 32 years) there was evidence of cysticercosis (57.6%). In 68 of the infected patients (41.9%) active cysts were seen on CT. Neurocysticercosis, either active or inactive, was thus implicated in 28% of this group of epileptic patients, which emphasises the importance of this disease in the causation of epilepsy in the black population of South Africa.
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Southern Africa, Pretoria.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed