Meningitis is a common cause of convulsive status epilepticus
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Meningitis is a common cause of convulsive status epilepticus with fever.
AIMS In children with convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) with fever, to determine the likelihood of acute bacterial meningitis (ABM), the proportion that are treated with antibiotics, and the proportion that have diagnostic CSF sampling. METHODS Patients with an incident episode of CSE with fever were identified as part of an ongoing prospective population based study of CSE in childhood. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2005.072512