ACUTE BILATERAL MASTOIDITIS. MENINGITIS ASPECTS. OPERATION. RECOVERY

Bacteroides meningitis complicating chronic mastoiditis.

A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic middle and external ear suppuration presenting with acute meningitis due to Bacteroides uniformis is described. Anaerobic organisms including Bacteroides species were cultured from the affected external auditory meatus. Administration of metronidazole led to complete clinical recovery and a cholesteatoma was subsequently surgically evacuated. Chronic ...

Bilateral acute retinal necrosis after herpetic meningitis

PURPOSE The report of a case of bilateral acute retinal necrosis after herpetic meningitis. CASE REPORT A 47-year-old man was admitted with the chief complaint of persistent high fever and transient loss of consciousness. Although his general condition improved after intravenous acyclovir administration, the patient presented with visual loss in both eyes 4 days after admission. Visual acuity...

Sulphathiazole and Acute Mastoiditis

Bilateral tuberculous mastoiditis and facial palsy.

The patient was first seen at Red Cross Children’s Hospital in September 2001, aged 3 years and 2 months. He was living with his unemployed single-parent mother in an informal settlement. He had bilateral suppurative submandibular lymphadenitis, requiring incision and drainage. Two weeks after discharge, pus swabs revealed a positive culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The local TB clinic w...

Acute Suppurative Labyrinthitis Operation With Recovery

I'HIS case is reported because of its comparative rarity. G. H., aged 22 years, was admitted to the Benn Hospital on 30th June, 1936. He had been suffering from left otorrhoea for fourteen years, and had been an inpatient for nine (lays in the Benn Hospital in 1934, under the late Dr. Gibson. He theni hadl pain and mastoid tenderness which settled down after a paracentesis had been performeed, ...