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Iatrogenic meningitis.

Iatrogenic meningitis can be caused by a number of mechanisms. The recent case reports of fungal meningitis after application of epidural methylprednisolone caused warning in the medical community. Cases were caused by contaminated lots of methylprednisolone from a single compounding pharmacy. Several medications can cause meningitis by probable hypersensitivity mechanism. Neurologists should b...

Streptococcus pyogenes meningitis after myelography.

Aseptic meningitis complicating metrizamide myelography.

A 62-year-old man was admitted for right arm radicular pain and diplopia. Eight months earlier he had documented metastatic adenocarc inoma, primary site unknown, with pleural and skeletal involvement. On physical examinat ion, he was alert, well oriented, and afebrile. Pertin ent findings included a supple neck, a left sixth cran ial nerve palsy with questionable left retinal mass, and mild we...

Aseptic Meningitis Complicating lotrolan Myelography

The patient was a 50-year-old woman who had had frequency of urination and numbness of the left side of the trunk for a few years. Neurologic examination showed slight anisocoria (right > left), asymmetry of muscle stretch reflex (right > left) in both upper and lower extremities, hypalgesia and thermohypesthesia of the left side of the trunk, and hypopallesthesia in the right lower extremity. ...

iatrogenic meningitis after spinal anesthesia

bacterial meningitis after spinal and epidural anesthesia is a very rare but serious complication. we report a case of meningitis developing a number of hours after a spinal block for caesarean section. no organism was grown but the csf pattern was suggestive of bacterial meningitis. severe neurological sequelae were present after three months of hospitalization. meningitis is a serious complic...