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Oscar H. Del Brutto
Researcher at Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo
Publications - 341
Citations - 8154
Oscar H. Del Brutto is an academic researcher from Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neurocysticercosis & Population. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 308 publications receiving 6900 citations. Previous affiliations of Oscar H. Del Brutto include Cayetano Heredia University & University of Guayaquil.
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Current Consensus Guidelines for Treatment of Neurocysticercosis
Hector H. Garcia,Carlton A. Evans,Carlton A. Evans,Theodore E. Nash,Osvaldo Massaiti Takayanagui,A. Clinton White,David Botero,Vedantam Rajshekhar,Victor C. W. Tsang,Peter M. Schantz,J. C. Allan,Ana Flisser,Dolores Correa,Elsa Sarti,Jon S. Friedland,S. Manuel Martinez,Armando E. Gonzalez,Robert H. Gilman,Robert H. Gilman,Oscar H. Del Brutto +19 more
TL;DR: Overall, four general recommendations were made: individualize therapeutic decisions, including whether to use antiparasitic drugs, based on the number, location, and viability of the parasites within the nervous system.
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Neurocysticercosis: updated concepts about an old disease
TL;DR: Neurocysticercosis, the infection of the human brain by the larvae of Taenia solium, is a major cause of acquired epilepsy in most low-income countries.
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Taenia solium cysticercosis.
TL;DR: The larval stage of the pork tapeworm infects the human nervous system, causing neurocysticercosis, one of the main causes of epileptic seizures in many less developed countries and also increasingly seen in more developed countries because of immigration from endemic areas.
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Clinical symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of neurocysticercosis
TL;DR: Improvements in immunodiagnosis have further advanced comprehension of the pathophysiology of this disease and led to individualised treatment approaches that account for the involvement of parenchymal or extraparen chymal spaces, the number and form of parasites, and the extent of degeneration and associated inflammation.
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A trial of antiparasitic treatment to reduce the rate of seizures due to cerebral cysticercosis.
Hector H. Garcia,E. Javier Pretell,Robert H. Gilman,S. Manuel Martinez,Lawrence H. Moulton,Oscar H. Del Brutto,Genaro Herrera,Carlton A. Evans,Carlton A. Evans,Carlton A. Evans,Armando E. Gonzalez +10 more
TL;DR: In patients with seizures due to viable parenchymal cysts, antiparasitic therapy decreases the burden of parasites and is safe and effective, at least in reducing the number of seizures with generalization.