Successful treatment of multicompartmental cerebral ventriculitis caused by Acinetobacter baumanii
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Successful treatment of multicompartmental cerebral ventriculitis caused by Acinetobacter baumanii
We present a case report of a 58-year- old woman with subarachnoid haemorrhage complicated by non-communicating hydrocephalus. During the course of her neurosurgical management, she developed external-ventricular drain associated ventriculitis which in turn was complicated by lack of communication between third and fourth ventricles. The causative organism was a fully-sensitive Acinetobacter ba...
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عنوان ژورنال: IDCases
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2214-2509
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2017.11.005