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1 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Técnica del Norte. Imbabura, Ecuador
2 Facultad de Salud. Universidad Camilo José Cela. Madrid, España
3 Unidad de Neuropsicofarmacología. Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre. Madrid, España
*Correspondencia: Dr. Jorge L. Anaya-González. Calle D y Av. El Retorno. Conjunto Balcones del Retorno casa #2. Caranqui. Ibarra. Imbabura, Ecuador. E-mail: jorgeluisanayagonzalez@gmail.com
Abstract
Introduction: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most frequent parasitic disease in the central nervous system of humans.
Objective: to establish the correlation between clinical and tomographic variables in patients with neurocysticercosis in the neurology consultation of Hospital San Vicente de Paul and Hospital IESS Ibarra, during the year 2020.
Patients and methods: descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional research.
Population and sample: 93 patients. The information was collected in the neurology consultation. Clinical and imaging criteria were used for diagnosis. Odds Ratio (OR; 95% CI) was calculated. For multivariate analysis, binary logistic regression models were used. Statistical significance was considered when the value of p <0.05.
Symptoms: headache (77.4%), epilepsy (41.9%). Tomographic findings: size < 1 cm (67.7%), single lesion (54.8%), supratentorial (93.5%). There were several clinical / tomographic correlations in the bivariate analysis, the presence of epilepsy was associated with lesions of size >1 cm (OR: 9.65; 95% CI: 3.48-26.7), the vesicular + ventricular colloidal stage + nodular (OR: 3.90; 95% CI: 1.64-9.28) and parenchymal topography (OR: 5.03; 95% CI: 2.03-12.4) (p < 0.05). In the multivariate analysis, epilepsy was not associated with tomographic aspects such as the size, stage and topography of the cysticerci (p < 0.05). Headache and reduced muscle strength were associated with parenchymal topography and stage of lesions respectively (p < 0.05).
Conclusions: Despite having a wide clinical spectrum, the presence of epilepsy, headache, and reduced muscle strength seem to be the most representative manifestations, so their inclusion in the development of prognostic scores should be evaluated, which allow evaluating the approach diagnostic and evolutionary in subsequent research.
Keywords
- Brain lobes
- Epilepsy
- Headache
- Injury status
- Neurocysticercosis
- Tomography
