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Common Cause and Cerebrospinal Fluid Changes of Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Background and Objective: Bacterial meningitis is an important cause of mortality and long-term neural morbidity. Immediate diagnosis and treatment are necessary in appropriate time. This study was designed in Afzalipour Hospital in Kerman to evaluate meningitis causes, frequency and CSF laboratory changes. Patients and Methods: In this retrograde descriptive study from September 2003 to Se...
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INTRODUCTION Although acute bacterial meningitis is most common among children, the disease nevertheless poses serious problems in the adult population. However, most clinical overviews of the disease have either focused on children or all age groups combined. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Information on all patients 5=16 years of age diagnosed in Iceland during the years 1975-1994 was collected from ...
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PURPOSE To characterize MR findings in acute and chronic coccidioidomycosis meningitis and relate the imaging features to the clinical course. METHODS We reviewed MR scans and clinical findings of 12 patients with coccidioidal meningitis. RESULTS Patients with active or untreated disease were found to have hydrocephalus and intense enhancement of the cervical subarachnoid space, basilar, sy...
متن کاملChronic and recurrent meningitis.
Chronic meningitis is defined as the persistence of clinical symptoms and signs of meningitis, with or without abnormal cerebrospinal fluid, for more than four weeks. In as many as one third of cases, no cause is found. In the remainder, infective, neoplastic and so-called aseptic disorders may be identified. Important infective causes include partially treated bacterial (pyogenic), tuberculous...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurologic Clinics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0733-8619
DOI: 10.1016/s0733-8619(05)70162-6