Successful cure for parasitic epilepsy at Xiangya Hospital

The 29-year-old Yin, who has been having seizures for 6 years, was examined and found that the cause of epilepsy was a parasite in the brain, and with the anti-parasitic drugs, the worms were still alive, sucking nutrients from the brain tissue and excreting waste every day causing inflammatory foci to form in the brain. After careful study by the team headed by Director Yang Zhiguan, a plan was developed to remove the parasite as the main focus and to remove the surrounding inflammatory foci as a supplement. The parasite was removed at the time of surgery. The parasite was still alive at the time of removal, about 10 cm long, white and slender. The operation went well and the postoperative recovery was good. Yang Zhiquan, Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University For encephalopathies caused by parasites such as epilepsy, they can be treated with short medications. If the medications do not kill the parasites and the epilepsy cannot be controlled, surgery is performed as soon as possible to remove the parasites from the brain. This will put an end to the parasite’s continued mischief in the brain, reduce the damage to brain tissue, and provide early recovery.