The patient had been complaining of headaches — then collapsed at a soccer game.
A Texas brain surgeon successfully removed a tapeworm from a man’s brain after the patient reported severe headaches.
With brain scans, doctors detected a suspicious lesion near the man’s brainstem along with hydrocephalus, which is pressure inside the skull.Moctezuma had neurocysticercosis, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls a parasitic infection caused by larval cysts of the pork tapeworm that reaches the brain or spinal cord. .
Amadio tells Yahoo Lifestyle that years ago, doctors found a tapeworm in the brain of Moctezuma’s sister. “That suggests there could have been some local exposure,” he says. After a three-hour surgery, Amadio removed the tapeworm in its entirety and prescribed Moctezuma medication to kill off any remaining cells, he says. “It’s been nearly a year and the patient is disease-free.”
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