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Arturo Carpio
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 76
Citations - 5471
Arturo Carpio is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neurocysticercosis & Taenia solium. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 73 publications receiving 4927 citations. Previous affiliations of Arturo Carpio include Facultad de Ciencias Médicas & Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.
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Epileptic seizures and epilepsy : Definitions proposed by the international league against epilepsy (ILAE) and the international bureau for epilepsy (IBE)
Ettore Beghi,Anne T. Berg,Arturo Carpio,Lars Forsgren,Dale C. Hesdorffer,W. Allen Hauser,Kristina Malmgren,Shlomo Shinnar,Nancy R. Temkin,David J. Thurman,Torbjörn Tomson +10 more
TL;DR: The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsia (IBE) have come to consensus definitions for the terms epileptic seizure and epilepsy.
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Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure
Ettore Beghi,Arturo Carpio,Lars Forsgren,Dale C. Hesdorffer,Kristina Malmgren,Josemir W. Sander,Torbjörn Tomson,W. Allen Hauser +7 more
TL;DR: The definition of acute symptomatic seizures for epidemiological studies is considered, and the criteria used to distinguish these seizures from unprovoked seizures for specific etiologies are refined.
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Cysticercosis and epilepsy: a critical review.
TL;DR: There is a discrepancy between the results of serologic assays and neuroimaging studies: >50% of those individuals with NC diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan test EITB negative, and most seropositive individuals are asymptomatic.
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Neurocysticercosis: an update
TL;DR: The most effective approach to taeniosis and cysticercosis is prevention, which should be a primary public-health focus for less developed countries.
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Neurocysticercosis and epilepsy in developing countries
TL;DR: There is a dilemma about whether limited public resources would better be spent on general economic development, which would be expected to have a broad impact on the health and welfare of communities, or on specific programmes to help individual affected people with neurocysticercosis and epilepsy.