New diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis: Reliability and validity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NCC) remains problematic because of the heterogeneity of its clinical, immunological, and imaging characteristics. Our aim was to develop and assess a new set of diagnostic criteria for NCC, which might allow for the accurate detection of, and differentiation between, parenchymal and extraparenchymal disease.

Methods

A group of Latin American NCC experts developed by consensus a new set of diagnostic criteria for NCC. A multicenter, retrospective study was then conducted to validate it. The reference standard for diagnosis of active NCC was the disappearance or reduction of cysts after anthelmintic treatment. In total, three pairs of independent neurologists blinded to the diagnosis evaluated 93 cases (with NCC) and 93 controls

SUBMITTER: Carpio A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5053253 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature