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ArticleOxford medical case reports2024

Gait and cognitive disorders revealing massive neurocysticercosis: a case report.

Parany Haja Rabearisoa, Nomena Finiavana Rasaholiarison, Julien Razafimahefa, Alain Djacoba Tehindrazanarivelo

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Article in Oxford medical case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Parany Haja RabearisoaNeurology Department, Befelatanana University Teaching Hospital, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Nomena Finiavana RasaholiarisonNeurology Department, Andrainjato University Teaching Hospital, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-9776
Julien RazafimahefaNeurology Department, Befelatanana University Teaching Hospital, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Alain Djacoba TehindrazanariveloNeurology Department, Befelatanana University Teaching Hospital, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
University of Antananarivo · MGUniversité de Fianarantsoa · MG

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Abstract

Neurocysticercosis is frequent in Madagascar. Its clinical presentations depends on the topography of the lesions. We report a case with gait and cognitive disorders. A 49-year-old man, right-handed, with progressive gait disorders (small steps with magnetization). On examination, he had gait disorders, associated with frontal syndrome with Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) scale of 10/18, a Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) scale of 24/30, a constructive apraxia and a clock test disturbance. The brain CT scan showed massive lesions of fronto-parietal and temporal neurocysticercosis, meningeal neurocysticercosis with racemose forms. Lesions had different ages associated with a communicating hydrocephalus. Gait disturbance and cognitive function were improved after an evacuating lumbar puncture and cysticidal treatments. This case illustrate the importance of neurological examination in a patient with neurocysticercosis. Neurocysticercosis could be a curable cause of dementia.

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cognitive disordersgait disordersneurocysticercosis

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