Abstract
Researchers at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India, and University of Texas Medical School at Houston performed dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI and determined serum matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) levels and MMP-9 gene polymorphisms in 30 subjects with a single calcified lesion of neurocysticercosis without any perilesional abnormality.
Highlights
Albendazole and praziquantel, the two antiparasitic drugs used in treatment of neurocysticercosis, hasten radiologic resolution of cysts but may exacerbate the seizures resulting from the host inflammatory response
Pediatric neurologists at the Floating Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA report a 7-year-old boy with Alice in Wonderland syndrome associated with Lyme disease
Alice in Wonderland syndrome, or metamorphopsia, should be added to the clinical spectrum of Lyme neuroborreliosis, and a high index of suspicion is required in diagnosis
Summary
Pediatric neurologists at the Floating Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA report a 7-year-old boy with Alice in Wonderland syndrome associated with Lyme disease. The EEG findings in the present report are comparable to those of Boyd, and a notched delta pattern, characteristic of Angelman syndrome, is found in patients presenting
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