Meningitis complicated by mycotic aneurysms

Meningitis complicated by mycotic aneurysms

Mycotic aneurysms complicated by vasospasm and strokes represent a rare manifestation of bacterial meningitis. We describe a healthy woman diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and mycotic aneurysms, who received both antibiotic and corticosteroid therapy. This approach fostered a significant radiologic improvement in her mycotic aneurysms as evidenced by serial angiographic examinations. During ...

Pneumococcaemia complicated by meningitis.

Meningitis developed in 3 of 14 children with occult pneumococcaemia; in 2 of them it developed while they were being treated with low doses of intravenous penicillin, in the third child it developed at a time when he was not being treated. All children with occult pneumococcaemia should be treated with intravenous penicillin as are those with pneumococcal meningitis.

Mycotic thoracoabdominal aneurysms.

Mycotic Endocarditis and Meningitis

Case report R. B., an 1 8-year-old schoolgirl with rheumatic mitral stenosis, developed subacute bacterial endocarditis in May 1944. After a preliminary and unsuccessful course of penicillin treatment elsewhere, she was transferred to the New Haven Hospital in September 1944. The infecting bacterium, Streptococcus vridans, proved relatively sensitive to penicillin, and the administration of 12,...

Mycotic aneurysms of coronary arteries.

Bacterial endocarditis may give rise to mycotic arterial aneurysms in any part of the body, but particularly in the thoracic aorta, intracranial vessels, superior mesenteric artery, and the large arteries to the extremities (Weintraub and Abrams, I968). Aneurysms occurring in the coronary arteries are commonly arteriosclerotic or congenital and are very rarely mycotic in origin (Daoud et al., I...