Cochrane Review: Antiepileptic drugs for seizure control in people with neurocysticercosis

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# Antiepileptic drugs for seizure control in people with neurocysticercosis. ## BACKGROUND Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the brain. Epilepsy is the most common clinical presentation, though people may also present with headache, symptoms of raised intracranial pressure, hydrocephalus, and ocular symptoms depending upon the localisation of the parasitic cysts. Anthelmintic drugs, antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), and anti-oedema drugs, such as steroids, form the mainsta

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ed whether AEDs reduce the likelihood of seizures in people who had neurocysticercosis but had not had a seizure. For the question of secondary prevention, we examined whether AEDs reduce the likelihood of further seizures in people who had had at least one seizure due to neurocysticercosis. As part...

ls.gov, and the World Health Organisation International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. We also checked the reference lists of identified studies, and contacted experts and colleagues in the field to search for additional and ongoing studies. ## SELECTION CRITERIA Randomised and quasi-randomise...

side effects, number of people seizure free with short or long durations of treatment, quality of life, therapy costs, hospitalisations, and mortality. We used an intention-to-treat analysis for the primary analysis. We calculated odds ratio (OR) for dichotomous data (proportion of individuals who ...

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