Failure of one-day praziquantel treatment in patients with multiple neurocysticercosis lesions

E. Javier Pretell, Héctor H. García, Robert H. Gilman, Herbert Saavedra, Manuel Martinez, S. Rodriguez, C. Padilla, M. Porras, A. E. Gonzalez, M. Verastegui, C. Evans, V. C.W. Tsang

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Resumen

A recently described one-day regimen of praziquantel (PZQ) therapy for neurocysticercosis (NCC), three doses of 25 mg/k given at 2 h intervals, was applied in eight patients with viable NCC cysts without any evidence of inflammation. Resolution of lesions in computed tomography (CT) was observed in all five patients with a single cyst, whereas all cysts survived in three patients with multiple brain parasites. One-day praziquantel is a good regimen for patients with a single viable brain cysticercus but is poorly effective for multiple cysts.

Idioma originalInglés
Número de artículo968
Páginas (desde-hasta)175-177
Número de páginas3
PublicaciónClinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Volumen103
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2001

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