Seizures Clinical Trial
Official title:
Analysis of the Occurrence of Perilesional Edema and Seizures in Patients With Inactive Cysticercosis
This study will examine what causes seizures in patients with cysticercosis (pork tapeworm
infection). A better understanding of this could lead to improved methods of controlling or
preventing seizures.
In humans, the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) lives in the small intestine. The parasite's
microscopic eggs travel around the body-including to the brain-where they develop into cysts.
Usually, the cysts don't cause symptoms until they die. Then, they provoke an inflammatory
reaction that irritates the brain, causing seizures and other symptoms. The inflammation
eventually goes away, but the dead cysts remain. Calcium deposits often form where the cysts
are. Some of the calcified cysts develop swelling around them that seem to be associated with
the development of seizures.
This study will explore how and why these dead, calcified cysts continue to cause seizures.
In so doing, it will try to determine: 1) the best diagnostic imaging method for detecting
swelling around the cysts; 2) how often swelling occurs; and 3) what makes some cysts prone
to swelling and related seizure activity, while others are not.
Patients with cysticercosis who have had seizures or who have known or possible swelling
around calcified cysts will be studied with various tests, including magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) scans, electroencephalography (EEG), blood tests, and
possibly lumbar puncture. Patients will be studied for two cycles of seizures (during active
and quiet periods) or a maximum 4 years.
Seizures are the most common clinical manifestation of cerebral cysticercosis and occur in the presence of viable, dying, and calcified or non-calcified dead cysts. How calcified cysts provoke seizures is not known but recent observations demonstrated edema around some calcified lesions at the time of seizure activity and disappearance during periods when seizures were not occurring. Edema associated with foci in idiopathic epilepsy is highly unusual so that this observation suggests that the mechanism(s) associated with calcified cysts is unique. Documenting and understanding this phenomenon is important for a number of reasons. First, although by definition these lesions are inactive, e.g., not living larvae and do not require anti-parasitic treatment, they are frequently mistaken for active lesions and patients undergo unnecessary treatment. Second, a likely reason for perilesional edema is intermittent antigen release and subsequent host immune response resulting in inflammation and edema. If proved, then the treatment for this would not only involve suppression of seizure activity with anti-seizure medication but also the use of anti-inflammatory medications such as corticosteroids. The present protocol will systematically assess the presence of edema associated with calcified lesions at the time of seizure activity and attempt to determine why some calcified lesions in the same patient are foci of seizures while others are clinically silent. There are three related but separate questions. 1) What is the most sensitive MRI technique that can detect edema around calcified or inactive lesions? It is essential to determine the most sensitive methods initially because the use of insensitive techniques will lead to inaccurate assessments of which lesions are prone to lead to seizure activity and how many patients are affected. 2) How common is perilesional edema around calcified or inactive lesions associated with seizure activity? 3) What factors determine which lesions are prone to cause seizure activity? 4) Can perilesional edema be effectively treated or prevented? 5) Can perilesional edema be treated? We have reported from long term longitudinal studies in a handful of patients that only some of many lesions seem to be associated with seizure activity and edema. ;
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