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NCT00001912
Brain Tissue Swelling and Seizure Activity in Inactive Cysticercosis
trial in Cysticercosis in 6 participants. Completed in 4 April 2012.
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
|---|---|
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | OBSERVATIONAL |
| Enrollment | 6 |
| Start date | 10 August 1999 |
| Estimated completion | 4 April 2012 |
| Sites | 2 locations across United States, Peru |
Conditions studied
- Cysticercosis — all drugs for Cysticercosis →
- Cysts — all drugs for Cysts →
- Seizures — all drugs for Seizures →
Sponsor
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Cysticercosis or Cysts. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
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.
Publications & conference data
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00001912 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Last refreshed: 2 July 2017
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