AIM To estimate global morbidity from acute bacterial meningitis in children. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of the PubMed and Scopus databases to identify both community-based and hospital registry-based studies that could be useful in estimation of the global morbidity from bacterial meningitis in children. We were primarily interested in the availability and quality of the inform...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Predictors of early case-fatality (3-day, 7-day, and 30-day) in first-ever ischemic stroke were identified and compared with predictors of late case-fatality (90-day and 1-year). METHODS A registry designed to register hospitalized patients with stroke in Denmark 2000 to 2007 holds 26,818 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke with information on stroke severity (Scan...

BACKGROUND Inpatient case fatality from severe malaria remains high in much of sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these deaths occur within 24 hours of admission, suggesting that pre-hospital management may have an impact on the risk of case fatality. METHODS Prospective cohort study, including questionnaire about pre-hospital treatment, of all 437 patients admitted with severe febrile illne...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of maternal mortality associated with eclampsia and to determine how socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of the women influence the deaths. METHODOLOGY Records of 52 eclampsia-related mortalities from January 2003 to December 2007 were reviewed, retrospectively. Their social demography, mode and place of delivery, time of eclampsia, and fetal ou...

tuberculosis is one of the most important infectious diseases and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. multi drug resistant tuberculosis is a new threat, which can result in a high case fatality rate. this study was conducted to define the incidence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in kermanshah. ­antibiogram was performed on­­ pcr-confirmed isolates of mycobacte...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Many patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with intraparenchymal extension develop early hematoma expansion, which is not explained by aneurysmal rerupture in half of cases. In patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage, the computed tomography angiography (CTA) spot sign predicts hematoma expansion and poor outcome. We conducted a 2-center prospectiv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Mortality from stroke has been declining over recent decades in most countries, except in Eastern Europe. In this analysis, based on the World Health Organization Monitoring Trends and Determinants in Cardiovascular Disease (WHO MONICA) Project, we explored to what extent these trends are due to changes in stroke event rate and to changes in case fatality. METHODS The W...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and case fatality of stroke in a geographically defined region of Scotland, a nation with a high cardiovascular risk. METHODS All strokes occurring in residents of the Scottish Borders (population 106,352) were identified during a 24-month period from 1998 to 2000 using multiple overlapping methods of case-ascerta...

Proper seat belt use saves lives; however, the use rate decreased in Korea. This study aimed to measure the magnitude of the preventive effect of seat belt on case-fatality across drivers and passengers. We used the Emergency Department based Injury In-depth Surveillance (EDIIS) database from 17 EDs between 2011 and 2012. All of adult injured patients from road traffic injuries (RTI) in-vehicle...