Evidence-based guidelines recommend different treatment strategies in intraparenchymal neurocysticercosis in adults and children, which is documented by American Academy of neurology as the Evidence-Based Guidelines: Treatment Of Parenchymal Neurocysticercosis . The available data demonstrate that albendazole therapy, administered with or without corticosteroids, is probably effective in decreasing both long-term seizure frequency and the number of cysts demonstrable radiologically in adults and children with neurocysticercosis. Cysticercosis, infection with the larval form of Taenia solium , is widely prevalent in developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
It is considered by the WHO to be the most common preventable cause of epilepsy in the developing world, with an estimated 2 million people having epilepsy caused by T. solium infection. Queries related to the treatment…
