Spinal Taenia solium cysticercosis in Mexican and Indian patients: a comparison of 30-year experience in two neurological referral centers and review of literature.

Objective: To present a retrospective study from patients with spinal cysticercosis (SC), diagnosed within the last 30 years in Mexican and Indian neurological referral centers.

Methods: This is a retrospective and comparative study of the clinical and radiological profile between Mexican and Indian patients with spinal neurocysticercosis during a 30-year period and a review of the literature during the same period.

Results: Twenty-seven SC patients were included: 19 from Mexico and 8 from India.

Neurological events related to influenza A (H1N1) pdm09.

Objectives: To review neurological complications after the influenza A (H1N1) pdm09, highlighting the clinical differences between patients with post-vaccine or viral infection.

Design: A search on Medline, Ovid, EMBASE, and PubMed databases using the keywords “neurological complications of Influenza AH1N1” or “post-vaccine Influenza AH1N1.”

Setting: Only papers written in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, and Italian published from March 2009 to December 2012 were included.